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This book is conceived as an elementary introduction to the modern theory of nonlinear dynamical systems with particular emphasis on the exploration of chaotic phenomena. One might ask why yet another book should be published when the literature on chaos and non-linear oscillations already fills shelf after shelf following the stormy developments in this branch of science since the 1970s. The reasons which prompted us have been detailed in the preface.
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Argyris (Deceased), J., Faust, G., Haase, M., Friedrich (Deceased), R. (2015). Descriptive Synopsis of the Text. In: An Exploration of Dynamical Systems and Chaos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46042-9_1
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