Notes on Four Lectures at ISI Kolkata

by ralph abraham

1. Dynamical schemes, 20 march 2008

Basic concepts of dynamical systems and schemes (families)
  • the stairway to chaos, defn of a flow
  • scheme = family = morphogenetic field
  • thom's big pic, bad set, pull back
References (look here by MS #: www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/full-list.html)
  • Stairway to Chaos (MS#97)
  • Complex dynamical systems (MS#98)
revised by ralph, 27 march 2008