Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!cs.uoregon.edu!scavo From: scavo@cs.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys Subject: Re: wanted: intro to symbolic dynamics Summary: see _Elementary_symbolic_dynamics_ by Hao Message-ID: <1990Sep28.232852.13221@cs.uoregon.edu> Date: 28 Sep 90 23:28:52 GMT References: <1990Sep28.153029.10741@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner) Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon Lines: 19 In article <1990Sep28.153029.10741@agate.berkeley.edu> propp@math.mit.edu (James Propp) writes: >Does anyone have any good, basic references for symbolic dynamics, >suitable for a smart undergraduate? Preferably it should touch on >the measurable theory (i.e. Markov chains) as well as the topological >theory of symbolic dynamical systems. Well, you might want to take a look at Hao, Bai-lin. _Elementary_symbolic_dynamics_and_chaos_ _in_dissipative_systems_. World Scientific, Singapore, 1989. not because it's necessarily the best, but because it's the only one I know of. If nothing else, there are 500 [!] included references, fifty of those being books of various sorts (none on symbolic dynamics that I can see, however). -- Tom Scavo ---------