Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory

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• Introduction and preliminaries; Part I. Topological Dynamics: 1. Examples and basic properties; 2. An application of recurrence to arithmetic progressions; 3. Topological entropy; 4. Interval maps; 5. Hyperbolic toral automorphisms; 6. Rotation numbers; Part II. Measurable Dynamics: 7. Invariant measures; 8. Measure theoretic entropy; 9. Ergodic measures; 10. Ergodic theorems; 11. Mixing; 12. Statistical properties; Part III. Supplementary Chapters: 13. Fixed points for the annulus; 14. Variational principle; 15. Invariant measures for commuting transformations; 16. An application of ergodic theory to arithmetic progressions.