Syllabus for Physics 213/Computer Science 264
Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics

Bob Behringer

Fall Semester, 2009

References:
Required textbook:

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994). AVAILABLE IN PAPER

Additional suggested textbook:

• Chaos in Dynamical Systems, Second Edition by Edward Ott (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2002).

Supplementary reading:

(These books are available on loan from the instructor, or from the library.)

• Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields by John Guckenheimerr and Philip Holmes (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1983).
• Mathematica, 3rd Edition by Stephen Wolfram (Addison Wesley, Reading, 1996).
• Chaos by James Gleick (Penguin, New York, 1987).
• Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction by Michael Tabor (Wiley & Sons, New York, NY 1989).
• Chaos and an Introduction to Dynamical Systems by K. Alligood, T. Sauer, and J. Yorke (Springer, New York, 1996).
• Chaotic Dynamics: an Introduction by G. Baker and J. Gollub (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• Physical Fluid Dynamics by D. Dritton (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988).
• The Nature of Chaos Edited by Tom Mullin (Oxford Science Publications, 1995).
• Order within Chaos: Towards a deterministic approach to turbulence by Pierre Bergé, Yves Pomeau and Christian Vidal (Wiley & Sons, New York, NY 1984).