Syllabus MATH4700/6700

 

The text for this course will be:

   Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Strogatz (ISBN 0-7382-0453-6)

 

The topics to be covered are:

1)      Flows on the line.

2)      Bifurcations of one-dimensional flows.

3)      Flows on the circle.

4)      Linear systems of differential equations.

5)      Analysis of the phase plane.

6)      Limit cycles.

7)      Bifurcations of two-dimensional flows.

8)      Some topics in chaos.

 

Grading will be based on homeworks, a mid-term and a final exam.

 

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