Introduction_to_Dynamic_Systems

This book  is  an outgrowth of a course developed at Stanford University over the past  five  years. It  is  suitable as a self-contained textbook for second-level undergraduates  or  for first-level graduate students in almost every field that employs quantitative methods. As prerequisites, it  is  assumed that the student may  have had a first course  in  differential equations and a first course  in  linear algebra  or  matrix analysis. These two subjects, however, are reviewed in Chapters 2 and 3, insofar as they are required for later developments.