Book Details

Dynamical Systems

Publication year: 2005

: 978-3-540-28889-3

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Our aim is to introduce, explain, and discuss the fundamental problems, ideas, concepts, results, and methods of the theory of dynamical systems and to show how they can be used in specific examples. Itis also important to find out when a certain dynamic behavior is stable under small perturbations, as well as to understand the various scenarios of instability. Finally, an essential aspect of a dynamic evolution is the transformation of some given initial state into some final or asymptotic state as time proceeds. The temporal evolution of a dynamical system maybe continuous or discrete, but it turns out that many of the concepts to be introduced a reuseful in either case.


: Mathematics and Statistics, Cellular Automata, Chaos, Dynamical Invariants, Entropy, Stability of dynamical systems, automata, information theory