An introduction to developments in chaos and related topics in nonlinear dynamics, including the detection and quantification of chaos in experimental data, fractals, and complex systems.
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. One-dimensional maps; 3. Nonchaotic multidimensional flows; 4. Dynamical systems theory; 5. Lyapunov exponents; 6. Strange attractors; 7. Bifurcations; 8. Hamiltonian chaos; 9. Time-series properties; 10. Nonlinear prediction and noise reduction; 11. Fractals; 12. Calculation of fractal dimension; 13. Fractal measure and multifractals; 14. Nonchaotic fractal sets; 15. Spatiotemporal chaos and complexity; A. Common chaotic systems; B. Useful mathematical formulas; C. Journals with chaos and related papers; Bibliography; Index
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