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Authors: Martin Golubitsky and Ian Stewart
Title: The symmetry perspective: From equilibrium to chaos in phase space and physical space
Additional book information: Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Boston and Berlin, 2003, xvii + 325 pp., ISBN 3-7643-2171-7, 44.94 euros, CHF 68, softcover; ISBN 3-7643-6609-5, 75 euros, CHF 113, hardcover

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Michael C. Reed, Why is mathematical biology so hard?, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2004), no. 3, 338–342. MR 2034240

G. Bard Ermentrout, Review of Sync: The emerging science of spontaneous order [Hyperion Press, New York, 2003] by Steve Strogatz, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2004), no. 3, 312–319. MR 2034238

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M. Golubitsky and D. Schaeffer, Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory I, Springer App. Math. Sci. 51, Springer Verlag, New York (1985). MR 0771477

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M. Golubitsky, I. Stewart and D. Schaeffer, Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory II, Springer App. Math. Sci. 69, Springer Verlag, New York (1988). MR 0950168

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J. Guckenheimer and P. Holmes, Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields, Springer App. Math. Sci. 42, Springer Verlag, New York (1983). MR 0709768

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J.D. Murray, Mathematical Biology, Biomath. 19, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1989). MR 1007836

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M.C. Reed, Why is mathematical biology so hard? Notices of the AMS 51:338-342 (2004). MR 2034240

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S.H. Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Hyperion Press (2003), reviewed by G.B. Ermentrout in Notices of the AMS 51:312-319 (2004). MR 2034238