This is my personal selection of non-texbooks for Dynamical Systems.
Chaos: The Making of a New Science
James Gleick, 1987. See the Wikipedia page
This is the first time encounter I had wit dynamical systems, sometime around 1991. I still keep the original version in Spanish with its wonderful color plates.
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MANIAC
Benjamín Labatut - 2023
Poincaré and the Three Body Problem
June Barrow-Green - 1997
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity.
Loren Graham, Jean-Michel Kantor - 2009
Edición en español: https://www.acantilado.es/catalogo/el-nombre-del-infinito/
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu - 2015
Edició en Català: https://www.raigverdeditorial.cat/cataleg/el-problema-dels-tres-cossos/
Kam Story, The: A Friendly Introduction To The Content, History, And Significance Of Classical Kolmogorov-arnold-moser Theory.
H Scott Dumas - 2014.
Las matemáticas del cosmos
Ian Stewart
Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
Leonard Smith - 2007
I love the description of Laplace notion of determinism (aka Laplace’s demon)
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Steven Strogatz - 2004
For many years my students watched the film on the synchronisation of fireflies. It was not until some years later that I first saw fireflies in nature.
What We Cannot Know
Marcus du Sautoy - 2016
This book is not restricted at all to dynamical systems, but it makes a very clear description of deterministic chaos and the limits it poses to prediction. I found the book amazing and very timely in these times of “you can ask me anything” of AI chatbots.