A First Course In Chaotic Dynamical Systems

A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment, Second Edition
The long-anticipated revision of this well-liked textbook offers many new additions.In the twenty-five years since the original version of this book was published, much has happened in dynamical systems. Mandelbrot and Julia sets were barely ten years old when the first edition appeared, and most of the research involving these objects then centered around iterations of quadratic functions. This research has expanded to include all sorts of different types of functions, including higher-degree polynomials, rational maps, exponential and trigonometric functions, and many others. Several new sections in this edition are devoted to these topics.
The area of dynamical systems covered inA First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment, Second Edition is quite accessible to students and also offers a wide variety of interesting open questions for students at the undergraduate level to pursue. The only prerequisite for students is a one-year calculus course (no differential equations required); students will easily be exposed to many interesting areas of current research. This course can also serve as a bridge between the low-level, often non-rigorous calculus courses, and the more demanding higher-level mathematics courses.
Features
More extensive coverage of fractals, including objects like the Sierpinski carpet and others
that appear as Julia sets in the later sections on complex dynamics, as well as an actual
chaos "game."
More detailed coverage of complex dynamical systems like the quadratic family
and the exponential maps.
New sections on other complex dynamical systems like rational maps.
A number of new and expanded computer experiments for students to perform.