Re: Nonlinear dynamics

Brian D. Harper (bharper@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:13:17 -0400

Gordon Simons wrote:

>Glenn,
>
>Can you share with us your mathematical sources for the subject of
>nonlinear dynamics.

Bill and Glenn have both provided some good references. I thought I
would just add a few more.

My favorite popular level treatment is:

<Complexification>, John L. Casti, HarperCollins, 1994.

A couple of others which I don't believe have been mentioned
are:

<The Quark and the Jaguar>, Murray Gell-Mann, 1994.

[Gell-Mann is one of the founders of the Santa Fe Inst.]

<How the Leopard Changed its Spots>, Brian Goodwin,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

There is also a collection of classic papers in:

<Universality in Chaos>, Predrag Cvitanovic, Institute
of Physics Publishing, 1993.

[includes articles by Ruelle, Feigenbaum, Eckmann, Lorenz and many
others]

and a collection of Stephen Wolfram's papers:

<Cellular Automata and Complexity>, Stephen Wolfram, Addison
Wesley, 1994.

Peter Beckmann maintains a "Nonlinear Dynamics Bibliography"
page on the world wide web:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Physik/Chaos/chaosbib.html

Links to other complexity/chaos/artificial life pages can
be reached through the Santa Fe Institutes home page:

http://www.santafe.edu/

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