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Chaos and nonlinear dynamics : an introduction for scientists and engineers /

Hilborn, Robert C.

Chaos and nonlinear dynamics : an introduction for scientists and engineers / Robert C. Hilborn. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. - xvii, 654 p. : ill ; 25 cm. + hbk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 628-648) and index.

I. The Phenomenology of Chaos -- Three chaotic systems -- The universality of chaos -- II. Toward a theory of nonlinear dynamics and chaos -- Dynamics in state space: One and Two dimensions -- Three-dimensional state space and chaos -- Iterated maps -- Quasi-periodicity and chaos -- Intermittency and Crises -- Hamiltonian systems -- III. Measures of Chaos -- Quantifying chaos -- Many dimensions and multifractals -- IV. Special Topics -- Pattern Formation and Spatiotemporal chaos -- Quantum chaos, the theory of complexity and other topics.

0195057600 0195088166

92040059


Chaotic behavior in systems.
Quantum chaos.
Dynamics.
Nonlinear theories.

003.75

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