History
The concept of dynamical systems theory has its origins in Newtonian mechanics. There, as in other natural sciences and engineering disciplines, the evolution rule of dynamical systems is given implicitly by a relation that gives the state of the system only a short time into the future.
Before the advent of fast computing machines, solving a dynamical system required sophisticated mathematical techniques and could only be accomplished for a small class of dynamical systems.
Some excellent presentations of mathematical dynamic system theory include Beltrami (1987), Luenberger (1979), Padulo and Arbib (1974), and Strogatz (1994).
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