Course Content (Syllabus)
Continuous and discrete dynamical systems. Recursions, fixed and periodic points, Sarkovskii's theorem, chaotic behaviour. Examples, Cantor sets, fractals, the logistic function etc. Symbolic dynamics. Statistical and topological behaviour of orbits. Normal families of analytic functions, iterations of analytic functions, dynamic behaviour, Julia and Fatou sets, properties, the Mandelbrot set.
Additional bibliography for study
Προτεινόμενα συγγράμματα:
1. A. Beardon, Iteration of Rational Functions, Springer-Verlag 1991.
2. M. Brin, G. Stuck, Introduction to Dynamical Systems, Cambridge Univ. Press
2004.
3. R. L. Devaney, Chaotic dynamical systems, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley 1989.
4. K. Falconer, Fractal Geometry, John Wiley & Sons 1990.
5. J. Milnor, Dynamics in One Complex Variable, 3rd ed., Princeton Univ. Press
2006.