Fabien Durand is Full Professor in Mathematics at Université de Picardie Jules Verne. His interests include topological dynamical systems and the relations with theoretical computer science. He is currently the president of the Société Mathématique de France. Dominique Perrin is Emeritus Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science at Université Gustave Eiffel. He is (co)author or editor of a number of books including Profinite Semigroups and Symbolic Dynamics, Codes and Automata, Infinite Words and Combinatorics on Words (under the pseudonym Lothaire). He is a member of Academia Europea.

• Introduction; 1. Topological dynamical systems; 2. Ordered groups; 3. Ordered cohomology groups; 4. Partitions in towers; 5. Bratteli diagrams; 6. Substitution shifts and generalizations; 7. Dendric shifts; 8. Interval exchange transformations; 9. Bratteli diagrams and C*-algebras; Appendix A. Solutions to exercises; Appendix B. Useful definitions and results; Appendix C. Summary of examples; Appendix D. Equivalent definitions of Sturmian shifts; Appendix E. Open problems; References; Name index; Index of symbols; Subject index.

'This substantial monograph comprises the first thorough and self-contained exposition of the theory of dimension groups in topological dynamics … It is a welcome addition to the dynamics literature in an area of much activity with links to several other disciplines, including operator algebras and computer science.' Thomas B. Ward, zbMATH