Readership: Graduate students, researchers and professionals working in physics, applied mathematics and engineering.
George M. Zaslavsky, Department of Physics and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
Review(s) from previous edition"The strengths of the book lie in its broad survey of the complexity of Hamiltonian dynamics and its focus on interesting physical examples. The book has many excellent figures and illustrations as well as an extensive bibliography. Each chapter has a modest collection of associated exercises. - William Satzer, Zentralblatt Math
"Zaslavsky examines the new and realistic image of the origins of dynamic chaos and randomness by considering the Hamiltonian theory of chaos and such applications as the cooling of particles and signals, the control and erasing of chaos, polynomial complexity and Maxwell's Demon. " - SciTech Book News
Chaotic Dynamics 1: Hamiltonian dynamics 2: Examples of Hamiltonian dynamics 3: Perturbed dynamics 4: Chaotic dynamics 5: Physical models of chaos 6: Separatrix chaos 7: Chaos and symmetry 8: Beyond the KAM-theory 9: Phase space of chaos Fractality of chaos 10: Fractals and chaos 11: Poincaré recurrences 12: Dynamical traps 13: Fractal time Kinetics 14: General principles of kinetics 15: Lévy processes and lévy flights 16: Fractional kinetic equation (FKE) 17: Renormalization group of kinetics (RGK) 18: Fractional kinetics equation solutions and modifications 19: Pseudochaos Applications 20: Complexity and entropy of dynamics 21: Complexity and entropy functions 22: Chaos and foundation of statistical mechanics 23: Chaotic advection (dynamics of tracers) 24: Advection by point vortices 25: Appendix 1 26: Appendix 2 27: Appendix 3 28: Appendix 4 29: Notes 30: Problems
