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From: rr@sco.COM (Ronald Joe Record)
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Date: 25 Jan 91 21:04:53 GMT
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guan@CHICONE.CS.MISSOURI.EDU (Guan) writes:


|     I am planning to teach an undergraduate level course on chaotic
|dynamical systems for junior or senior level science and engineer majors.
|The goal is to introduce some basic mathematical ideas and phenomena
|in chaotic dynamical systems for someone without a great deal of mathematical
|background.
|
|	< deleted text giving additional details of course >
|
|   2.  Is there other text book that might be appropriate, either as a
|alternative, or as supplement to Devaney's book?

I wholeheartedly recommend the visually oriented series by Ralph Abraham
and Chris Shaw entitled "Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior" available
from Ariel Press in three volumes. In the (preprint) preface to volume
I, they state "We assume nothing in the way of prior mathematical
training, beyond vectors in three dimensions, and complex numbers."

|    If there are enough response to my questions, or enough interest
|about the answer, I'll send a follow-up later.   Thank you all in advance.

I would be interested in hearing reactions from you and your students.

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