Dynamical systems with applications using Type="Italic"]Mathematica®

Dynamical Systems with Applications Using Mathematica ® provides an introduction to the theory of dynamical systems with the aid of the Mathematica computer algebra package. The book has a very hands-on approach and takes the reader from basic theory to recently published research material. Emphasized throughout are numerous applications to biology, chemical kinetics, economics, electronics, epidemiology, nonlinear optics, mechanics, population dynamics, and neural networks. Throughout the book, the author has focused on breadth of coverage rather than fine detail, with theorems and proofs being kept to a minimum. The first part of the book deals with continuous systems using ordinary differential equations, while the second part is devoted to the study of discrete dynamical systems. Exercises are included at the end of every chapter. Both textbooks and research papers are presented in the list of references. Working Mathematica notebooks will be available at http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Books/AppliedMathematics/. The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as working scientists in applied mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The material is also accessible to readers with a general mathematical background. Many chapters of the book are especially useful as reference material for senior undergraduate independent project work. This book provides an introduction to the theory of dynamical systems with the ® aid of the Mathematica computer algebra system. It is written for both senior undergraduates and graduate students. The ?rst part of the book deals with c- tinuous systems using ordinary differential equations (Chapters 1–10), the second part is devoted to the study of discrete dynamical systems (Chapters 11–15), and Chapters 16 and 17 deal with both continuous and discrete systems. It should be pointedoutthatdynamicalsystemstheoryisnotlimitedtothesetopicsbutalso- compassespartialdifferentialequations,integralandintegrodifferentialequations, stochastic systems, and time-delay systems, for instance. References [1]–[4] given at the end of the Preface provide more information for the interested reader. The author has gone for breadth of coverage rather than ?ne detail and theorems with proofs are kept at a minimum. The material is not clouded by functional analytic and group theoretical de?nitions, and so is intelligible to readers with a general mathematical background. Some of the topics covered are scarcely covered el- where. Most of the material in Chapters 9, 10, 14, 16, and 17 is at a postgraduate levelandhasbeenin?uencedbytheauthor’sownresearchinterests. Thereismore theory in these chapters than in the rest of the book since it is not easily accessed anywhere else. It has been found that these chapters are especially useful as ref- ence material for senior undergraduate project work. The theory in other chapters of the book is dealt with more comprehensively in other texts, some of which may be found in the references section of the corresponding chapter. __Dynamical Systems with Applications Using Mathematica^®^__computer algebra package. The book has a very hands-on approach and takes the reader from basic theory to recently published research material. Emphasized throughout are numerous applications to biology, chemical kinetics, economics, electronics, epidemiology, nonlinear optics, mechanics, population dynamics, and neural networks.Throughout the book, the author has focused on breadth of coverage rather than fine detail, with theorems and proofs being kept to a minimum. The first part of the book deals with continuous systems using ordinary differential equations, while the second part is devoted to the study of discrete dynamical systems. Exercises are included at the end of every chapter. Both textbooks and research papers are presented in the list of references. Working Mathematica notebooks will be available at http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Books/AppliedMathematics/. The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as working scientists in applied mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The material is also accessible to readers with a general mathematical background. Many chapters of the book are especially useful as reference material for senior undergraduate independent project work. This book provides an introduction to the theory of dynamical systems with the aid of the Mathematica computer algebra package. The book has a very hands-on approach and takes the reader from basic theory to recently published research material. Emphasized throughout are numerous applications to biology, chemical kinetics, economics, electronics, epidemiology, nonlinear optics, mechanics, population dynamics, and neural networks. Theorems and proofs are kept to a minimum. The first section deals with continuous systems using ordinary differential equations, while the second part is devoted to the study of discrete dynamical systems. "The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as working scientists in applied mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering, Many chapters of the book are especially useful as reference material for senior undergraduate independent project work."--Jacket