Publisher's Synopsis
This book presents developments in the study of the chaotic behaviour of deterministic systems. It concentrates on the universal aspects of chaotic motions: those qualitative and quantitative predictions which apply to large classes of physical systems.;The selection can be divided into roughly four parts. The first part offers a general introduction to deterministic chaos and universality. The second part presents some of the experimental evidence for universality in transitions to turbulence. The third part concentrates on the theoretical investigations of the universality of ideas, and the last part gives a glimpse of the further developments stimulated by the success of the one-dimensional universality theory.
