Holden Chaos

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5815-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 461, 334 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Holden, Arun V.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Acknowledgements, pg. vii
1. What is the use of chaos?, pg. 3
2. A graphical zoo of strange and peculiar attractors, pg. 15
3. One-dimensional iterative maps, pg. 39
4. Two-dimensional iterative maps, pg. 58
5. Chaos in feedback systems, pg. 99
6. The Lorenz equations, pg. 111
7. Instabilities and chaos in lasers and optical resonators, pg. 135
8. Differential systems in ecology and epidemiology, pg. 158
9. Oscillations and chaos in cellular metabolism and physiological systems, pg. 179
10. Periodically forced nonlinear oscillators, pg. 211
11. Chaotic cardiac rhythms, pg. 237
12. Chaotic oscillations and bifurcations in squid giant axons, pg. 257
13. Quantifying chaos with Lyapunov exponents, pg. 273
14. Estimating the fractal dimensions and entropies of strange attractors, pg. 291
15. How chaotic is the universe?, pg. 315
Index, pg. 321