thisbookprovidesthefirstself-containedcomprehensiveexpositionofthetheoryofdynamicalsystemsasacoremathematicaldisciplinecloselyintertwinedwithmostofthemainareasofmathematics.theauthorsintroduceandrigorouslydevelopthetheorywhileprovidingresearchersinterestedinapplicationswithfundamentaltoolsandparadigms.
thebookbeginswithadiscussionofseveralelementarybutfundamentalexamples.theseareusedtoformulateaprogramforthegeneralstudyofasymptoticpropertiesandtointroducetheprincipaltheoreticalconceptsandmethods.themainthemeofthesecondpartofthebookistheinterplaybetweenlocalanalysisnearindividualorbitsandtheglobalcomplexityoftheorbitstructure.thethirdandfourthpartsdevelopindepththetheoriesof!ow-dimensionaldynamicalsystemsandhyperbolicdynamicalsystems.
thebookisaimedatstudentsandresearchersinmathematicsatalllevelsfromad-vancedundergraduateup.scientistsandengineersworkinginapplieddynamics,non-linearscience,andchaoswillalsofindmanyfreshinsightsinthisconcreteandclearpresentation.itcontainsmorethanfourhundredsystematicexercises.