Chaos /

This volume sets out the basic applied mathematical and numerical methods of chaotic dynamics and illustrates the wide range of phenomena, inside and outside the laboratory, that can be treated as chaotic processes.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-de...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Holden, Arun V.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [1986]
©1986
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400858156
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Summary: This volume sets out the basic applied mathematical and numerical methods of chaotic dynamics and illustrates the wide range of phenomena, inside and outside the laboratory, that can be treated as chaotic processes.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781400858156
Index Number: QA402
CLC: N94
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
1. What is the use of chaos? /
2. A graphical zoo of strange and peculiar attractors /
3. One-dimensional iterative maps /
4. Two-dimensional iterative maps /
5. Chaos in feedback systems /
6. The Lorenz equations /
7. Instabilities and chaos in lasers and optical resonators /
8. Differential systems in ecology and epidemiology /
9. Oscillations and chaos in cellular metabolism and physiological systems /
10. Periodically forced nonlinear oscillators /
11. Chaotic cardiac rhythms /
12. Chaotic oscillations and bifurcations in squid giant axons /
13. Quantifying chaos with Lyapunov exponents /
14. Estimating the fractal dimensions and entropies of strange attractors /
15. How chaotic is the universe? /
Index.