Chaos Theory

Accepted · 1963

Status: Accepted
Year: 1963

Summary

Deterministic systems can be unpredictable, because arbitrarily small differences in the starting state grow exponentially. Lorenz found it in a truncated weather simulation; the constants turn out to be universal.

Equations

Logistic Map Lorenz System Feigenbaum Constant

Proponent

Mitchell Feigenbaum Edward Lorenz Henri Poincaré

Referenced by

equation

Feigenbaum Constant Logistic Map Lorenz System

researcher

Edward Lorenz Henri Poincaré Mitchell Feigenbaum

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