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Complex Systems Center

Course Description

Math 266 - Chaos, Fractals, and Dynamical Systems
     
  Instructor(s):
Christopher M. Danforth
 
  Description:
We discuss orbits, stability, sinks, sources, saddles, chaos, lyapunov exponents, fractals, mandelbrot and julia sets, strange attractors, and manifolds.
 
  Prerequisites:
 
  Methodologies:
Chaos theory, Nonlinear dynamic differential equations
 
  Domains:
Environmental Systems, Biological Systems:, Within organisms (e.g., molecular, physiological, etc.), Between organisms (e.g., ecological, sociological, evolution), Fluid Dynamics
 
  Frequency: Once a year
  Credits: 3
 
 
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