TY - BOOK AU - Geon Ho Choe TI - Computational ergodic theory T2 - Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics SN - 9783540231219 AV - QA313 PY - 2005///] CY - New York PB - Springer-Verlag N1 - Chapter 1. Prerequisites Chapter 2. Invariant Measures Chapter 3. The Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem Chapter 4. The Central Limit Theorem Chapter 5. More on Ergodicity Chapter 6. Homeomorphisms of the Circle Chapter 7. Mod 2 Uniform Distribution Chapter 8. Entropy Chapter 9. The Lyapunov Exponent: One-Dimensional Case Chapter 10. The Lyapunov Exponent: Multidimensional Case Chapter 11. Stable and Unstable Manifolds Chapter 12. Recurrence and Entropy Chapter 13. Recurrence and Dimension Chapter 14. Data Compression N2 - Ergodic theory is hard to study because it is based on measure theory, which is a technically difficult subject to master for ordinary students, especially for physics majors. Many of the examples are introduced from a different perspective than in other books and theoretical ideas can be gradually absorbed while doing computer experiments. Theoretically less prepared students can appreciate the deep theorems by doing various simulations. The computer experiments are simple but they have close ties with theoretical implications. Even the researchers in the field can benefit by checking their conjectures, which might have been regarded as unrealistic to be programmed easily, against numerical output using some of the ideas in the book. One last remark: The last chapter explains the relation between entropy and data compression, which belongs to information theory and not to ergodic theory. It will help students to gain an understanding of the digital technology that has shaped the modern information society.---Summary provided by publisher UR - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b138894 ER -