Textbook introduces the vocabulary and some highlights of elementary group theory. Emphasis is placed on concrete examples so that finite rotation groups and the 17 wallpaper groups are treated in detail alongside theoretical results. Over 300 exercises and some 60 illustrations. Annotation copyrigh[...]
An extension of different lectures given by the authors, Local Bifurcations, Center Manifolds, and Normal Forms in Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of these topics. Starting with the simplest bifurcation problems arising for ordinary differenti[...]