|  | Author: Steven H. Strogatz
Publisher: Westview Press
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 29964
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 512
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0738204536
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780738204536
ASIN: 0738204536
Publication Date: January 18, 2001
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The way to learn about dynamics February 21, 2006
M. Schneider (Denver)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic book on dynamics. It takes the intuitive path to understanding dynamical systems and skips the formally ladden historical precedent. I've enjoyed every word I've read and can honestly say that it has improved my intuitions for dynamical systems ten-fold.
The only textbook I bought in my undergrad! October 14, 2005
Christine Tan (USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the only textbook I bought in my undergrad days! It's so interesting (and funny! especially the 'Romeo & Juliet' bits) I couldn't bear to put it down. Covers basics from intuitive understanding of stability in systems and builds up to chaos and more difficult topics. For best results use it with Matlab and try out the Runge-Katta solver, plot the 'butterfly' attractors of the Lorenz equations... Great book.
Template for a Math book! March 28, 2005
A reader (WY USA)
49 out of 49 found this review helpful
Were all Math books written like this, the number of students majoring in Math, Physics, etc. would rise considerably. The presentation is clear, lucid and comprehensive. Each concept is introduced with its motivating phenomena and the mathematical treatment is logical and elegant with many worked examples. This is one of those rare Math books that "begin at the beginning", yet go on to develop the concepts to a point useful even to grad students who want a review of basics before plunging into more advanced material. (If you are looking for more detailed mathematical stuff, I'd suggest Kevorkian's "Multiple Scale and Singular Perturbation Methods" or "Perturbation Methods" by Hinch.)
For the benefit of those reviewers who have complained that the mathematics is not rigorous enough, may I point out that the author clearly states the book is an introduction to the topic. I have come across other introductory books using basic differential equations, on similar topics where the material is presented in a disjointed way. Strogatz, however, shows us the inter-relatedness of the broad range of concepts and applications that fall within the title. Therein lies a major strength of this book.
Another big plus is that Strogatz presents those intermediate diagrams and results that take us to the final conclusion. Also he interprets the Math en route to the finale. He does not employ the usual "it is apparent that ..." strategy to pole-vault to miracle steps. This approach makes the book a breezy read; a remark not commonly made about advanced Math books!
Excellent March 22, 2005
Me (Florida)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had the fortune to take the course on Nonlinear Dynamics from Dr. Strogats at Cornell some 8 years ago. I recently took the book out of the shelf because I wanted to check something about chaos and in just one afternoon I reviewed most of the material from the class (all right, I also used my notes a bit). Ok, I have good memory, specialy for math concepts and specially about this topic (my master's project was about analyzing chaos in heart rate signals) but the book explains everything so well that I literaly only needed to breeze throght the pages to "click" on those topics I had forgoten or that had become fuzzy. It is that well explained.
Even people with no previous exposure to non-linear dynamics will easily get the concepts. If you also have the fortune to have such a fantastic teacher you ceartainly will enjoy a long, happy relationship with this fantasctic field.
Chaos on a plate June 4, 2004
Mekail Ahmed (London, England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Strogatz's approach to Nonlinear Dynamics is suitable for anyone equipped with a good basic understanding of ordinary differential equations. He allows the reader to gradually build-up their understanding through a series of illustrations and examples - this is the sort of book that will be indispensable the night before a final year undergraduate Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics exam. Not excessively mathematical, contains solid explanations and encourages the reader to learn more about this fantastic area of physics.
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