Lectures on Neural Dynamics

Francesco Bullo Department of Mechanical Engineering Center for Control, Dynamical-Systems, and Computation University of California, Santa Barbara bullo at ucsb.edu

Download and copyright information

• Version dated May 8, 2025

• Complete book in upright format [PDF file]

• Complete book in slide/landscape format [PDF]

@Book{lectures-neural-dynamics,
  author =    {F. Bullo},
  title =     {Lectures on Neural Dynamics},
  year =      2025,
  url =       {https://fbullo.github.io/lnd}
}

Copyright information

These lecture notes are intended for personal non-commercial use only: you may not use this material for commercial purposes and you may not copy and redistribute this material in any medium or format.

Why I decided to self-publish a print-on-demand book

There are several reasons why I decided to self-publish this book via the print-on-demand service by Kindle Direct Publishing (former Amazon CreateSpace). I appreciate the ability to:

• retain the full copyrights of all the material,

• make the document freely available online in multiple versions (see above),

• retain direct anytime control over the paperback publication costs, retain a majority of the royalties after low fix costs, and set a low price,

• update the book revision at any time (simply re-upload the PDF file, minimal turn-around time, no need for any permission, and never out-of-print), and

• make available a high-quality paperback book through a broad distribution network.

As a combination of this flexibility, I typically polish and enrich the book every time I teach the course.

Similar arguments are presented in the write-up Why I Self-Publish My Mathematics Texts With Amazon by Robert Ghrist

History

• Spring 2022: first time I taught the course

• Winter 2025:: second time I taught the course and first book draft

• May 8, 2025: first edition online

• May 27, 2025: small update with improvements to similarity matching, downloadable python code, and more

Feedback

I am thankful for any feedback information, including suggestions, evaluations, error descriptions, or comments about teaching or research uses. Please email bullo at ucsb.edu