Several distinctive aspects make Dynamical Systems unique, including:
treating the subject from a mathematical perspective with the proofs of most of the results included
providing a careful review of background materials
introducing ideas through examples and at a level accessible to a beginning graduate student
focusing on multidimensional systems of real variables
The book treats the dynamics of both iteration of functions and solutions of ordinary differential equations. Many concepts are first introduced for iteration of functions where the geometry is simpler, but...

Ordo II comprises the work that made Erasmus famous, namely the Adagia (Proverbs) some of which were extended into essays. This first volume of the Adages in the Amsterdam edition of the Latin texts of Erasmus gives a general introduction to the Adages in German, as well as a critical edition of the Latin text of the first half of the first thousand Adages. The text is accompanied by notes, also in German, that trace Erasmus' sources and give linguistic, historical, philological and, where necessary, theological background information that helps to...

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