Preface for the Second Edition Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 Dynamical Systems 1.1.1 Phase Space and Orbits 1.1.2 Parameters and Bifurcation of Dynamical Behavior 1.1.3 Examples of Dynamical Systems 1.2 Symbolic Dynamics as Coarse-Grained Description of Dynamics 1.2.1 Fine-Grained and Coarse-Grained Descriptions 1.2.2 Symbolic Dynamics as the Simplest Dynamics 1.3 Abstract versus Applied Symbolic Dynamics 1.3.1 Abstract Symbolic Dynamics 1.3.2 Applied Symbolic Dynamics 1.4 Literature on Symbolic Dynamics 2 Symbolic Dynamics of Unimodal Maps 2.1 Symbolic Sequences in Unimodal Maps 2.1.1 Numerical Orbit and Symbolic Sequence 2.1.2 Symbolic Sequence and Functional Composition 2.1.3 The Word-Lifting Technique 2.2 The Quadratic Map ……
