The Theory of Chaotic Attractors

The editors felt that the time was right for a book on an important topic, the history and development of the notions of chaotic attractors and their "natu­ ral" invariant measures. We wanted to bring together a coherent collection of readable, interesting, outstanding papers for detailed study and comparison. We hope that this book will allow serious graduate students to hold seminars to study how the research in this field developed. Limitation of space forced us painfully to exclude many exce