Sinopsis
1. Presentation of Main Ideas.- 2. Basic Introduction to Bifurcations in 1-D.- 3. The Other Generic Bifurcations.- 4. Classification of the 7 Elementary Catastrophes.- 5. Hopf Bifurcation.- 6. Amplitude Equation for the Hopf Bifurcation.- 7. Parametric Instabilities and Other Nonlinear Behaviors.- 8. Introduction to Chaos.- 9. Pattern Formation in One Dimension.- 10. Universality in the Vicinity of the Threshold.- 11. Fronts between Domains.- 12. Order and Disorder both Spatial and Temporal.- 13. Two Dimensional Patterns.- 14. Wavelength Selection.- 15. Conclusion.- 16. Solutions to Exercises.- Bibliography.
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