Introduction to Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos (Texts in Applied Mathematics , Vol 2)

This volume is intended for advanced undergraduate or first year graduate students as an introduction to applied nonlinear dynamics and chaos. The author has placed emphasis on teaching the techniques and ideas which enable students to take specific dynamical systems and obtain some quantitative information about the behaviour of these systems. He has included the basic core material that is necessary for higher levels of study and research. Thus, people who do not necessarily have an extensive mathematical background, such as students of engineering, physics, chemistry and biology, should find this text as useful as students of mathematics.