Invitation To Dynamical Systems

This is an undergraduate textbook on dynamical systems, chaos, and fractals originally published by Prentice-Hall.

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The book is currently published in paperback by Dover and is available for purchase on Amazon.

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I make this book (and its solutions manual) available as postcardware. If you download from this site, send no money; instead, please send me a postcard from your home town to me at:

Ed Scheinerman, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

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Matlab code might not work

Please note that the book includes Matlab programs that were written a long time ago and are likely not compatible with the current version of Matlab. You'll need to update. A copy of the MATLAB programs I wrote for the book can be found in the MATLAB folder.