Table of Contents

Motivation.- Ergodicity, Recurrence and Mixing.- Continued Fractions.- Invariant Measures for Continuous Maps.- Conditional Measures and Algebras.- Factors and Joinings.- Furstenberg’s Proof of Szemeredi’s Theorem.- Actions of Locally Compact Groups.- Geodesic Flow on Quotients of the Hyperbolic Plane.- Nilrotation.- More Dynamics on Quotients of the Hyperbolic Plane.- Appendix A: Measure Theory.- Appendix B: Functional Analysis.- Appendix C: Topological Groups

Reviews

From the reviews: "A book with a wider perspective on ergodic theory, and yet with a focus on the interaction with number theory, remained a glaring need in the overall context of the development of the subject. ... The book under review goes a long way in fulfilling this need. ... it covers a good deal of conventional ground in ergodic theory ... . a very welcome addition and would no doubt inspire interest in the area among researchers as well as students, and cater to it successfully." (S. G. Dani, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, Vol. 32 (3), June, 2012)