Nonlinear Dynamics infinitely varied in form and

infinitely varied in form and texture

Completed only a few months before the author's death

Laidman offers knowledgeable advice on methods and techniques before proceeding to the heart of the book: expertly rendered instructional drawings of more than two dozen animals

The emphasis here is not on mathematics with great practical utility

Nonlinear Dynamics infinitely varied in form andGeared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this exposition covers the method of normal forms and its application to ordinary differential equations through perturbation analysis. In addition to its emphasis on the freedom inherent in the normal form expansion, the text features numerous examples of equations, the kind of which are encountered in many areas of science and engineering. The treatment begins with an introduction to the