Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics: Applications to Physics, Biology and Economic Systems

Through a series of examples from physics, engineering, biology and economics, this book illustrates the enormous potential for application of ideas and concepts from nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory. The book takes the reader from detailed studies of bifurcation structures of relativity simple models to pattern formation in spatially extended systems. It also discusses the different perspectives that nonlinear dynamics brings to different fields of science.