Elegant chaos : algebraically simple chaotic flows / Julien Clinton Sprott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sprott, Julien C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyapunov exponents.

Flows (Differentiable dynamical systems).

Chaotic behavior in systems--Mathematics.

Chaotic behavior in systems.

Physical Description:

xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensake, N.J. ; London : World Scientific, [2010]

Summary:

For some 20 years, Sprott (U. of Wisconsin-Madison) has been seeking the mathematically simplest systems of various types that can exhibit chaos, and has indeed found a number that are simpler in some sense than previous ones, or are otherwise more elegant because of such features as the number of parameters, some special symmetry, or economy of notation. Here he shares his harvest, along with similar examples that have been known for a long time, or have been recently discovered by other researchers. After setting out the fundamentals, he rings through different kinds of systems: periodically forced, autonomously dissipative and conservative, low-dimensional and high-dimensional, circular, spatio-temporal, time-delay, and chaotic electric. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.

ISBN:

9789812838810

9812838813

OCLC:

619662421