Syllabus
Course head: Sijue Wu (visiting associate Professor,
visiting from the University of Maryland)
Location: Science Center 109
Meeting Time: Tue/Thu: 2:30-4:00
Textbook: Robert L. Devaney, An introduction to chaotic Dynamical systems (second edition)
Homework: assigned each week and collected every following Thursday. No late homework will be
accepted. Collaborations among students are encouraged, but you must write up your own solutions.
Grading Policies: homeworks 15/each (40%), midterm 100 (20%), final 200 (40%), total: approx. 500 (100%)
Course Materials: One and higher dimensional dynamics. Materials
will be taken from chapters 1) and 2) in R.
Devaney's book. The emphasize is on the mathematical
aspects of the theory of discrete dynamical
systems.
Course Assistant Elena Gubankova, elena1@mit.edu
Homework
- Due 9/26: sec.1.3: 2, 3 a.b.d.e.
(and classify as attracting, repelling, or neither)
4 a.b.d.e., 7,8; sec. 1.4: 3,5,6.
Solutions (HW 1 and 2)
- Due 10/3: sec.1.5: 3, 4, 5, 2*(optional).
- Due 10/10: sec.1.5: 6 b,c; sec.1.6: 1 a, 2, 5, 6.
Solutions
- Due 10/17: sec.1.7: 1; sec.1.8: 1,5.
- Due 10/24: sec.1.9: 5,6;
additional homework problems, Solutions
- Due 10/31:
midterm
- Due 11/7: sec.1.10: 7,8,9;
additional homework problems, Solutions
- Due 11/14: sec.1.13: 3,4,5.
- Due 11/21: sec.1.12: 1 b.c., 6.
- Due 12/5: sec. 1.14: 1,4 sec.1.16 1, 3.
- Due 12/12: sec. 2.2. 1 a,c, 2 b, e, 3 a, b.
- Due 1/8:
final
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