@article{e0c406faf4674b428542d77718f1d51c,
title = "Preface",
author = "Lai, {Ying Cheng} and Tam{\'a}s T{\'e}l",
note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank all of our of colleagues with whom we had an opportunity for an exchange of ideas on transient chaos. We are particularly grateful to our coworkers for collaborative research. A particularly long record of joint publications binds both of us to C. Grebogi. We thank E.G. Altmann, G. Csern{\'a}k, A. Csord{\'a}s, B. Eckhardt, U. Feudel, M. Gruiz, G. Haller, D. Hensley, I.M. J{\'a}nosi, C. Jung, G. K{\'a}rolyi, Z. Kaufmann, A.P.S. de Moura, G. St{\'e}p{\'a}n, and K.G. Szab{\'o} for insightful comments on different chapters of the book during its preparation. E.G. Altmann, Y. Do, M. Gruiz, I. Mezi{\'c}, Sz. Hadob{\'a}s, and M. Pattanty{\'u}s-{\'A}brah{\'a}m helped us by preparing some of the figures. In addition, YCL would like to thank Dr. Arje Nachman, at the Air Force office of Scientific Research, for his wonderful support for research on nonlinear dynamics and chaos. TT is grateful to the Hungarian Science Foundation for its support by grant NK72037. We would like to express our thanks to the staff of Springer Science and Media.",
year = "2011",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "173",
pages = "v--ix",
journal = "Applied Mathematical Sciences (Switzerland)",
issn = "0066-5452",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing AG",
}