Publisher's Synopsis
For one- or two-semester courses in Dynamical Systems in the department of Advanced Mathematics.
This text gives an introduction into the ideas of dynamical systems. It is divided into two parts which can be treated in either order: the first part treats the aspects coming from systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations, and the second part is comprised of those aspects dealing with iteration of a function. Its main emphasis is on the types of behavior which nonlinear systems of differential equations can exhibit. The text assumes that students have taken courses on calculus covering both a single variable and multivariables, a course on linear algebra, and an introductory course on differential equations.
