Ergodic Theory

The author presents the fundamentals of the ergodic theory of point transformations and several advanced topics of intense research. The study of dynamical systems forms a vast and rapidly developing field even when considering only activity whose methods derive mainly from measure theory and functional analysis. Each of the basic aspects of ergodic theory--examples convergence theorems recurrence properties and entropy--receives a basic and a specialized treatment. The author''s accessible style and the profusion of exercises references summaries and historical remarks make this a useful book for graduate students or self study.