Chaos in Dynamical Systems (2nd Edition)
by Edward Ott · Cambridge University Press
Graduate textbook on chaotic dynamics with chapters on strange attractors and fractal dimension, nonattracting chaotic sets, chaotic transitions and multifractals. Readers can compute attractor dimensions and Lyapunov exponents and analyse fractal basin boundaries, riddled basins and crises. The standard graduate reference that treats attractors and their basins as the central object, going well past where Strogatz stops.
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