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Book SynopsisThe leading scientists who gave these papers under the sponsorship of the Royal Society in early 1987 provide reviews of facets of the subject of chaos ranging from the practical aspects of mirror machines for fusion power to the pure mathematics of geodesics on surfaces of negative curvature. The papers deal with systems in which chaotic condition
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Chairman's introduction, pg. 3*Diagnosis of dynamical systems with fluctuating parameters, pg. 5*Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and complex cardiac arrhythmias, pg. 9*Chaos and the dynamics of biological populations, pg. 27*Fractal bifurcation sets, renormalization strange sets and their universal invariants, pg. 45*From chaos to turbulence in Benard convection, pg. 63*Dynamics of convection, pg. 71*Chaos: a mixed metaphor for turbulence, pg. 87*Arithmetical theory of Anosov diffeomorphisms, pg. 97*Chaotic behaviour in the Solar System, pg. 109*Chaos in hamiltonian systems, pg. 131*Particle confinement and adiabatic invariance, pg. 145*Semi-classical quantization, adiabatic invariants and classical chaos, pg. 157*Some geometrical models of chaotic dynamics, pg. 171*THE BAKERIAN LECTURE, 1 9 8 7 Quantum chaology, pg. 183
