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Hardcover ISBN: | 978-0-88385-043-5 |
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MAA Member Price: | $56.25 |
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Book DetailsThe Carus Mathematical MonographsVolume: 31; 2010; 357 pp
Randomness and Recurrence in Dynamical Systems aims to bridge a gap between undergraduate teaching and the research level in mathematical analysis. It makes ideas on averaging, randomness, and recurrence, which traditionally require measure theory, accessible at the undergraduate and lower graduate level. The author develops new techniques of proof and adapts known proofs to make the material accessible to students with only a background in elementary real analysis. Over 60 figures are used to explain proofs, provide alternative viewpoints and elaborate on the main text. The book explains further developments in terms of measure theory. The results are presented in the context of dynamical systems, and the quantitative results are related to the underlying qualitative phenomena—chaos, randomness, recurrence and order. The final part of the book introduces and motivates measure theory and the notion of a measurable set, and describes the relationship of Birkhoff's Individual Ergodic Theorem to the preceding ideas. Developments in other dynamical systems are indicated, in particular Lévy's result on the frequency of occurence of a given digit in the partial fractions expansion of a number.
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Table of Contents
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Chapters
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Chapter 1. Background Ideas and Knowledge
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Chapter 2. Irrational Numbers and Dynamical Systems
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Chapter 3. Probability and Randomness
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Chapter 4. Recurrence
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Chapter 5. Averaging in Time and Space
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Additional Material
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Reviews
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The book is very well written and the author clearly motivates all definitions and theorems. Excellent illustrations throughout help cement the reader's understanding of the material and proofs are given in full detail. Great attention was paid in the writing and editing of this book, as I have not come across any typos.
Peter Rabinovitch, MAA Online Reviews
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Randomness and Recurrence in Dynamical Systems aims to bridge a gap between undergraduate teaching and the research level in mathematical analysis. It makes ideas on averaging, randomness, and recurrence, which traditionally require measure theory, accessible at the undergraduate and lower graduate level. The author develops new techniques of proof and adapts known proofs to make the material accessible to students with only a background in elementary real analysis. Over 60 figures are used to explain proofs, provide alternative viewpoints and elaborate on the main text. The book explains further developments in terms of measure theory. The results are presented in the context of dynamical systems, and the quantitative results are related to the underlying qualitative phenomena—chaos, randomness, recurrence and order. The final part of the book introduces and motivates measure theory and the notion of a measurable set, and describes the relationship of Birkhoff's Individual Ergodic Theorem to the preceding ideas. Developments in other dynamical systems are indicated, in particular Lévy's result on the frequency of occurence of a given digit in the partial fractions expansion of a number.
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Chapters
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Chapter 1. Background Ideas and Knowledge
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Chapter 2. Irrational Numbers and Dynamical Systems
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Chapter 3. Probability and Randomness
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Chapter 4. Recurrence
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Chapter 5. Averaging in Time and Space
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The book is very well written and the author clearly motivates all definitions and theorems. Excellent illustrations throughout help cement the reader's understanding of the material and proofs are given in full detail. Great attention was paid in the writing and editing of this book, as I have not come across any typos.
Peter Rabinovitch, MAA Online Reviews