Chaotic evolution and strange attractors : the statistical analysis of time series for deterministic nonlinear systems / David Ruelle ; notes prepared by Stefano Isola from the Lezione Lincee, Rome, May 1987.

Author
Ruelle, David [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Description
xi, 96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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      Lezioni lincee [More in this series]
      Notes
      "Collects together a series of lectures given by David Ruelle at the Accademia dei Lincee (Rome, May 1987)"--Foreword.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographies and index.
      Contents
      • Part I. Steps to a Deterministic Interpretation of Chaotic Signals: Descriptions of turbulence ; A bit more on turbulence ; The Henon mapping ; Capacity and Hausdorff dimension ; Attracting sets and attractors ; Extracting geometric information from a times series
      • Part II. The Ergodic Theory of Chaos: Invariant probability measures ; Physical measures ; Characteristic exponents ; Invariant manifolds ; Axiom A and structural stability ; Entropy ; Dimensions ; Resonances ; Conclusions.
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      ISBN
      • 0521368308 ((pbk.))
      • 9780521368308 ((pbk.))
      • 0521362725 ((hard))
      • 9780521362726 ((hard))
      LCCN
      88020317
      OCLC
      18164599
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