Book excerpt: Analysis and Simulation of Chaotic Systems is a text designed to be used at the graduate level in applied mathematics for students from mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry and biology. The book can be used as a stand-alone text for a full year course or it can be heavily supplemented with material of more mathematical, more engineering or more scientific nature. Computations and computer simulations are used throughout this text to illustrate phenomena discussed and to supply readers with probes to use on new problems.