Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with Student Solutions Manual: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, Second Edition
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This textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, especially students taking a first course in the subject. The presentation stresses analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, and strange attractors.
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The above theoretical and experimental results indicate a characteristic tipping-point behavior of the system, where a small increase in basal activation levels is sufficient to trigger robust pulsatile dynamics.
“The above theoretical and experimental results indicate a characteristic tipping-point behavior of the system, where a small increase in the basal activation levels is sufficient to trigger robust pulsatile dynamics (Strogatz, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Strogatz, S. H.
- Corresponding author
- Strogatz, Steven H.
- ORCID
- Strogatz, Steven H.
- Venue
- CRC Press eBooks
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Published
- 2018-09-21
- OpenAlex
- W4250883246
- Cited by
- 654
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 59 · 2025: 131 · 2024: 113 · 2023: 114 · 2022: 96 · 2021: 75 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 10.44
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CRC Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Mathematical Physics › Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Chaos control and synchronization
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Geometry and Topology › Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
- Keywords
- nonlinear dynamics, chaos, bifurcation, first-order differential equations, phase plane analysis, limit cycles, Lorenz system, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, chaotic attractors
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