Dynamical Systems
by Shlomo Sternberg
Publisher: OER Commons 2000
Number of pages: 151
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This book addresses the following topics: Iterations and fixed points; bifurcations; conjugacy; space and time averages; the contraction fixed point theorem; Hutchinson's theorem and fractal images; hyperbolicity; and symbolic dynamics.
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