本书从物理学而不是数学概念的角度介绍了目前动力系统中均匀双曲吸引子研究的进展小结构稳定的吸引子表现出强烈的*性,但是对于动力系统中函数和参数的变化不敏感。基于双曲混沌的特征,本书将展示如何找到物理系统中的双曲混沌吸引子,以及怎样设计具有双曲混沌的物理系统。 本书可以作为研究生和高年级本科生教材,也可以供大学教授以及物理学、机械学和工程学相关研究人员参考。
'Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics insideout by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics' history:something that actually occurred. MAUS is terrifying not for itsbrutality, but for its tenderness and guilt' New Yorker MAUS iswidely renowned as one of the greatest pieces of art and literatureever written about the Holocaust. It is adored by readers andstudied in colleges and universities all over the world. But whatled Art Spiegelman to tell his father's story in the first place?Why did he choose to depict the Jews as mice? How could a comicbook confront the terror and brutality of the worst atrocity of thetwentieth century? To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the book'sfirst publication, MetaMAUS, prepared by the author, is a vitalcompanion to the classic text and includes never-before-seensketches, rough and alternate drafts, family and reference photos,notebook and diary entries and the tran* of his interviewswith his father Vladek as well as a long interview with Art, inw
The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volumehad taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part becausehe envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash.Indeed, selling out its first edition on its first day, The Originof Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theology. Darwin’s reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance histheory of natural selection and his assertion that species were notcreated all at once by a divine hand but started with a few simpleforms that mutated and adapted over time. Whether commenting on hisown poor health, discussing his experiments to test instinct inbees, or relating a conversation about a South American burrowingrodent, Darwin’s monumental achievement is surprisingly personaland delightfully readable. Its profound ideas remain controversialeven today, making it the most influential book in the naturalsciences ever written—an important work n
It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable. To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here. Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in
An exciting new edition of a classic text. Howard Georgi isthe co-inventor (with Sheldon Glashow) of the SU(5) theory. Thisextensively revised and updated edition of his classic text makesthe theory of Lie groups accessible to graduate students, whileoffering a perspective on the way in which knowledge of such groupscan provide an insight into the development of unified theories ofstrong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions.
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory is a textbook intendedfor the graduate physics course covering relativistic quantummechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and Feynman diagrams. Theauthors make these subjects accessible through carefully workedexamples illustrating the technical aspects of the subject, andintuitive explanations of what is going on behind the mathematics.After presenting the basics of quantum electrodynamics, the authorsdiscuss the theory of renormalization and its relation tostatistical mechanics, and introduce the renormalization group.This discussion sets the stage for a discussion of the physicalprinciples that underlie the fundamental interactions of elementaryparticle physics and their de*ion by gauge field theories.
David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands.He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, and vernal ponds and thecreatures who live in them as most of us are about our families andclosest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks,dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges--everything that swims,flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this"intimate and wise book" (Sue Hubbell), Carroll takes us on alively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his ownelegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are soimportant to his life and ours -- and to all life on Earth.