Chaotic Evolution and Strange Attractors

By David Ruelle

Book Overview

This book, based on lectures given at the Accademia dei Lincei, is an accessible and leisurely account of systems that display a chaotic time evolution. This behaviour, though deterministic, has features more characteristic of stochastic systems. The analysis here is based on a statistical technique known as time series analysis and so avoids complex mathematics, yet provides a good understanding of the fundamentals. Professor Ruelle is one of the world's authorities on chaos and dynamical systems and his account here will be welcomed by scientists in physics, engineering, biology, chemistry and economics who encounter nonlinear systems in their research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521368308
• ISBN13: 9780521368308
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Chaos in a nutshell

A delightful little read - a little and highly mathematical overview of chaos - from a master.

Introduction to Chaos

An excellent introduction to chaos for the mathematically inclined, this work offers a brief tour through the concepts and theorms behind the field of chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Having a college mathematical background is decidedly helpful in getting use out of it, but having a mathematical mindset is absolutely essential.