Analysis

Learn Dynamical Systems & Chaos

How systems change over time: flows and maps, fixed points and linear stability, phase portraits, limit cycles and Poincaré–Bendixson, bifurcations, the logistic map and the period-doubling road to chaos, sensitive dependence, Lyapunov exponents, strange attractors, and fractal dimension.

Free to start · adaptive placement finds your level · reviews timed to your own forgetting.

What you'll learn

30 lessons in Dynamical Systems & Chaos

Dynamical systemsFixed points & stabilityPhase portraitsLimit cyclesBifurcationsThe logistic map & period-doublingChaos & sensitive dependenceLyapunov exponentsStrange attractorsFractals & dimensionStable & unstable manifoldsConservative systems & Hamiltonian flowPoincaré sections & return mapsThe Poincaré–Bendixson theoremBasins of attraction & separatricesSymbolic dynamics & the shift mapSynchronization & coupled oscillatorsHysteresis & catastropheNormal formsCentre manifold reductionFloquet theoryForced oscillators and resonanceCircle maps and the rotation numberArnold tongues and mode lockingThe Hénon mapThe Smale horseshoeIntermittency and crisesKAM theory and the standard mapThe Kuramoto transitionReconstructing an attractor
How Erudia teaches

Built to be understood — and remembered.

Every idea is taught with motivation and a worked example before the drills, and an FSRS spaced-repetition engine schedules each review for the day its model predicts you would forget it. A short placement check finds what you already know, so you start Dynamical Systems & Chaos exactly where it's useful.

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