The topology of chaos : Alice in stretch and squeezeland / Robert Gilmore, Marc Lefranc.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilmore, Robert, 1941-
Other Authors: Lefranc, Marc
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley-Interscience, [2002], ©2002.
Subjects:
Attractors (Mathematics)
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xxiii, 495 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Partial Contents:
  • Discrete dynamical systems: maps
  • Continuous dynamical systems: flows
  • Topological invariants
  • Branched manifolds
  • Topological analysis program
  • Folding mechanisms: A₂
  • Tearing mechanisms: A₃
  • Unfoldings
  • Symmetry
  • Flows in higher dimensions
  • A program for dynamical systems theory.