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MATH281

Chaotic Dynamical Systems MATH281 FA

Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:40 EST 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       42      4         38

This course is concerned with the mathematics which explains (cf., describes) chaotic dynamical systems-- deterministic systems whose behavior may appear to be random. It is a mathematics course--it deals with abstraction, theorems and proofs, not calculations. On the other hand, for the most part we will deal with concrete systems on the real line or in the plane.

MAJOR READINGS

Robert L. Devaney, A FIRST COURSE IN CHAOTIC
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Just as painting pictures of soup cans is not cooking, so making computer pictures of chaos or fractals is not mathematics.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: NSM MATH

Prerequisites: MATH221 or MATH223

Section 01: Coven, E; Times: M.W.F.. 1:10PM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1; No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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