MATH 383 - Topics in Mathematics

Credits: 3 in fall and winter, 4 in spring

Prerequisite: MATH 221, but may varies with topic. Readings and conferences for a student or students on topics agreed upon with the directing staff. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Fall 2018, MATH 383-01: Chaotic Dynamical Systems (3). Prerequisite MATH 221. An introduction to discrete dynamical systems, their applications, and their predictable and chaotic behavior. This includes the calculus of fixed points and periodic points, predictable and chaotic orbits, bifurcations in families of functions, iterated function systems, fractal sets, and the Mandelbrot set. Feldman.