Topological dynamical systems. An introduction to the dynamics of continuous mappings (Q2435411)

The book is an introduction into the theory topological dynamical systems. It is addressed mainly to graduate students. The pre-requisite for understanding this book is a course in general topology. Students who have mastered this book will have a solid basis to start research on related topics. The theory is about the behaviour of points in a Hausdorff space under the iteration of a continuous self-map. Much attention is given to dynamical systems on intervals on the real line. A wide range of topics such as asymptotic stability, shift systems, chain-recurrence, topological entropy, and chaos, is discussed. This book is worth reading to start research in topological dynamics.