The Topology Of Chaos 2E - Alice In Stretch And Squeezeland

Physicists Gilmore (Drexel U.) and Lefranc (U. des Sciences et Technologies, de Lille, France) look at chaos through the filter of topology, describing how to extract from chaotic data, topological signatures that determine the stretching and squeezing mechanisms that act on flows in phase space and that are responsible for generating chaotic data. Though much of the material has been little changed from the first edition a decade ago, they say, the first chapter has been substantially rewritten to make the whole book more accessible to people just entering the field, and new chapters have been added on bounding tori and representation theory for strange attractors. A new appendix considers embeddings. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ROBERT GILMORE, PhD, is a professor in the Physics Department of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MARC LEFRANC, PhD, is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes, Molecules at the Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France.
The authors are internationally recognized leaders in the field who have been developing these techniques for about two decades. As active members in the community they are knowledgeable about the broader context of their book's subject.