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At a more advanced level: my favorite graduate course was taught out of http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Applied-Nonlinear-Dynamical-Mathematics/dp/0387001778

• JadeNB 11y ago
  Another one that I meant to mention in my previous post is Strogatz (http://www.stevenstrogatz.com/books/nonlinear-dynamics-and-chaos-with-applications-to-physics-biology-chemistry-and-engineering http://www.stevenstrogatz.com/books/nonlinear-dynamics-and-c...). Do you know how Wiggins compares?
  • lotharbot 11y ago
    I have the first edition of Strogatz' book. It's fairly accessible to students who have taken calculus and been exposed to ODEs, and can be worked through in about a semester. Great for a 200 or 300 level course. Wiggins is a much more advanced, and much more thorough, book. It's appropriate for 400 level at a minimum, and probably more accessible to graduate students. I wouldn't even attempt it without having taken ODEs and Linear Algebra, and probably some real analysis or PDEs or another high level course just for exposure to mathematical rigor (and I might be leaving out other prereqs; I can't presently locate my copy of the book.) It's tremendously well presented for a book at that level, and could be enough material for a three-quarter or two-semester sequence. It's advanced enough that someone working on a related Masters or Doctoral thesis would likely refer to it regularly.