Contains well-chosen examples and exercises A student-friendly introduction that follows a workbook type approach[...]
The book describes the life of Henri Poincar'e, his work style and in detail most of his unique achievements in mathematics and physics. Apart from biographical details, attention is given to Poincar'e's contributions to automorphic functions, differential equations and dynamical systems, celestial[...]
Suitable for lecture courses that cover the classical theory of nonlinear differential equations associated with Poincare and Lyapunov and introduce the student to the ideas of bifurcation theory and chaos.[...]