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Nonlinear Dynamics: The Math Behind Almost Everything

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 4, 2016

The Cornell course that goes with this book is online and highly recommended. Strogatz is an amazing teacher and it helps a lot to see his ideas emerge in clicking chalk and responses to student's questions.

On the other hand, all this will be totally unintelligible for anyone who lacks a solid background in math, including algebra, calculus and complex variables. I have an honours degree in Math and was able to keep up with the course having absorbed all four years of an advanced university-level course.

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Zachary

Received item with some damage to bottom right corner (causing ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 29, 2014

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Received item with some damage to bottom right corner (causing about half the pages to have dog-eared corners). Otherwise the product is as expected. Quick delivery.

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HPBrickhead

Three Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 9, 2016

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Can't download or print the book, can only read it through google play, so it's a real PIA

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saugata giri

review after reading

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 20, 2023

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simply blown away by the wonderful way in thich the writer takes us through this very difficult subject. Its a wonderful buy, and really woth it.

Cameron Goode

High Quality 2nd Edition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2023

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The content is good and has improvements over the previous version my only nitpick is the printing quality being much worse in this edition. The paper is quite thin and the printing is a bit blotchy but the plots and everything are still clear. That said the improvements and additions aren't super huge. While appreicate them they aren't like mind blowing.

Still I appreciate the high quality of the text and for an undergrad or even a grad student that may not have been exposed to more advanced aspects of ODEs and general non-linearity this remains the best text I know of. I owe it to introducing me to two-timing a technique I still take advantage of to this day.

Brijendra kumar

Non linear dynamics

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on February 19, 2023

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This is really very good book and written in a proper format. Those who really interested in non linear dynamic theory should read this book
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nh

Awesome book

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on October 15, 2022

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Dense, precisa and funny to learn. One of my favorite introductory books

Gollum

Good introduction to the subject....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 8, 2021

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I purchased this at the same time that i purchased Jordan & Smith's Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations. In comparison, I found that whilst they don't cover exactly the same material, where they do overlap, Strogatz's book was better structured, had clearer explanations and fewer errors. There is also a series of Youtube videos of lectures given by Strogatz which covers some of the material in this book. if you have the option or you can only afford one, my recommendation would be to go with Strogatz's book.

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JRS118

Formulas for the basis of art.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 24, 2016

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This book provides a means to expressing in art mathematical formulas that are bound in the language of numbers and the grammatical propositions they demonstrate with symbols like , (subtract, divide, multiply etc.) I couldn't progress in my thinking about theories like "What is gravity" until I got rid of notebooks. Doing art with sculpture and light, and flowing water helped change the number patterns into something else that I could use to think. Art becomes the platform for thinking. Music also helps suspend the components of a formula while other parts of the brain sort and assess the theory to raise it all to a level of understanding. The photos demonstrate an electromagnetic field that I dismantled. The fluorescent light sets off the alarm on a gauss meter it is so strong . The metal sink would interact with the water and deposit minerals extracted onto the surface of the sink. The application of a barrier that is non metallic stopped the electromagnet field from interacting with the water. The earth is a salt solution. It behaves like a battery and a sound wave through the axis of the earth may be what interacts with a gear driven spiral to turn the earth. When the sun stops shining on part of the earth the battery effect of the electromagnetic field is shut off. I am thinking that gravity is being defined by these interactions. My scientific peer group has ceased to exist and this book is a replacement.

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Mark Saroufim

A pedagogical masterpiece

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 15, 2020

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In the same way that Machine Learning helps you frame problems in the real world as data problems where you need to figure out what your label is given your input, this book was transformational to how I see the world around me.

At a high level you can describe physical phenomena around you using differential equations, many books do this already by showing you worked out examples or will show you techniques for how to solve differential equations without talking about the equations themselves too much. This book is different in that it helps you refine your intuition to figure out which differential equations would describe some physical process around you, how to visualize and gain intuition around how those differential equations work and finally help you categorize the complexity of different kinds of differential equations and how to go about solving them in a tractable way.

Now I see differential equations around me all the time, it's kinda weird but I like it.

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