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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by andrepd on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:20PM (#19502520)
>As an undergrad I was excited about chaos and nonlinear dynamics.

I, too, read the Strogatz book :^).

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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by eightorbit on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:51PM (#19502902)
:) That's a good one, Devaney was more my era!
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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by perfect_wave on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:03PM (#19503033)
Devaney was my advisor's advisor when he did he his PhD at BU. I took a course on discrete dynamics and chaos and wrote my senior year thesis on bifurcation diagrams.

We used this textbook by Devaney: https://www.amazon.com/First-Course-Chaotic-Dynamical-System...

Was absolutely fascinated by the class. One of my favorites from undergrad.

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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by eightorbit on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:33PM (#19503446)
I had his Chaotic Dynamical Systems book checked out from the library for years and carried it everywhere. I should find a copy, what a great book!

I wonder if there's a good sort of "postmortem" on what happened to NLD and Chaos. It seems like everyone said, "Ok, that's a thing and it explains a lot but we can't do anything with it."

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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by cmehdy on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:23PM (#19507300)
Nonlinear systems by Hassan K. Khalil (ISBN 978-0130673893) is also worth it to solidify the underlying maths!
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