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The symmetry of chaos / Robert Gilmore and Christophe Letellier.
- Title
- The symmetry of chaos / Robert Gilmore and Christophe Letellier.
- Author
- Gilmore, R. S., 1938-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QA174.7.S96 G55 2007 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Letellier, Christophe.
- Description
- xx, 545 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Symmetry of Chaos treats the interplay between chaos and symmetry, between dynamical systems and group theory, describing nonlinear dynamical systems that exhibit symmetry and generate chaotic attractors."--book jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-528) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- Simple symmetries -- Image dynamical systems -- Covers -- Peeling bifurcations -- Three-fold and four-fold covers -- Multichannel intermittency -- Driven two-dimensional dynamical systems -- Larger symmetries -- Group theory basics -- Invariant polymials -- Equivariant dynamics in R -- Covering dynamical systems -- Symmetries -- Symmetry without groups: "Topological symmetry" -- All the covers of the horseshoe -- Addendix A A potpourri of equivariant systems.
- ISBN
- 9780195310658
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library