Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos-行业好书-社会科学-太极之巅书单号

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Steven H. Strogatz is professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1986. Professor Strogatz has been honored with several awards including MIT's highest teaching prize, the E.M. Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, as well as a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. His research on a wide variety of nonlinear systems--from synchronized fireflies to small-world networks--has been featured in the pages of Scientific American, Nature, Discover, Business Week, and The New York Times

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You'llnoticethattheframeworkalsocontainsaregionforbiddinglymarked"TheFrontier."It'slikeinthoseoldmapsoftheworld,wherethemapmakerswrote,"herebedragons"ontheunexploredpartsoftheglobe.

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Thesetopicsarenotcompletelyunexplored,ofcourse,butitisfairtosaythattheyarebothlargeandnonlinear.Theresultingbehavioristypicallycomplicatedinbothspaceandtime,asinthemotionofaturbulentfluidorthepatternsifelectricalactivityinafibrillatingheart.Towardtheendofthebookwewilltoucchonsomeoftheseproblems——theywillcertainlyposechallengesforyearstocome.

——引自第11页