In the new edition of this classic textbook ED Ott has added mush new material and has significantly increased the number of homework problems. The most important change is the addition of a completely new chapter on control and synchronization of chaos. Other changes include new material on riddled basins of attraction, phase locking of globally coupled oscillators, fractal aspects of fluid advection by Lagrangian Chaotic flows, magnetic dynamos and strange nonchaotic attractors.
Over the past few decadedsscientists, mathematicians and engineers have come to understand that a large variety of systems exhibit complicated evolution with time. This complicated behavior, known as chaos, occurs so frequently that it ha become important for workers in many disciplines to have a good grasp of the fundamentals and basic tools of the science of chaotic dynamics.
1. Introduction and overview
2. One-dimensional maps
3. Strange attractors and fractal dimension
4. Dynamical properties of chaotic systems
5. Nonattracting chaotic sets
6. Quasiperiodicity
7. Chaos in Hamiltonian systems
8. Chaotic transitions
9. Multifractals
10. Control and synchronization of chaos
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