Dynamical systems: An introduction with applications in economics and biology - Softcover

Tu, Pierre N. V

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387557806 ISBN 13: 9780387557809

Publisher: Springer-Verlag, 1992

Synopsis

This book - perhaps the only of its kind - gives a comprehensive account of Dynamical Systems in a plain non-technical language which is as rigorous as it can be made at this introductory level. Starting from the first steps of differential equations, on the assumption that readers only have a modest mathematical background, it quickly takes them to nonlinear dynamical systems, linearization theory, limit cycles, Gradient, Lagrangean and Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Apart from a new chapter on Floquet theory, Centre Manifold theorems and Liapunov-Schmidt reduction, this second edition also includes new materials, additional examples, illustrations and applications: almost every chapter has been re-written and enlarged to keep up with rapid advances in this field.

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Review

"This book is the most useful recent review of differential equation systems that I have seen. The exposition is clear, explicit and accurate. It strikes an effective balance between rigor and readability, arguing proofs for the simpler cases, but citing publications for the more complex." The Quarterly Review of Biology

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0387557806
• ISBN 13: 9780387557809
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 252