‎'‎‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ will certainly benefit young researchers entering the described field‎.‎‎'‎ Jan Cholewa‎,‎ Zentralblatt MATH ‎'‎This impressive book offers an excellent‎,‎ self‎-contained introduction to many important aspects of infinite‎-dimensional systems ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ At the outset‎,‎ the author states that his aim was to produce a didactic text suitable or first‎-year graduate students‎.‎ Unquestionably he has achieved his goal‎.‎ This book should prove invaluable to mathematicians wishing to gain some knowledge of the dynamical‎-systems approach to dissipative partial differential equations that has been developed during the past 20 years‎,‎ and should be essential reading for any graduate student starting out on a PhD in this area‎.‎‎'‎ W‎.‎ Lamb‎,‎ Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society ‎'‎The book is written clearly and concisely‎.‎ It is well structured‎,‎ and the material is presented in a rigorous‎,‎ coherent fashion‎.‎ A number of example problems are treated‎,‎ and each chapter is followed by a series of problems whose solutions are available on the internet‎.‎ ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ constitutes an excellent resource for researchers and advanced graduate students in applied mathematics‎,‎ dynamical systems‎,‎ nonlinear dynamics‎,‎ and computational mechanics‎.‎ Its acquisition by libraries is strongly recommended‎.‎‎'‎ Applied Mechanics Reviews