Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?

Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by perfect_wave on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:03PM (#19503033)

Devaney was my advisor's advisor when he did he his PhD at BU. I took a course on discrete dynamics and chaos and wrote my senior year thesis on bifurcation diagrams.

We used this textbook by Devaney: https://www.amazon.com/First-Course-Chaotic-Dynamical-System...

Was absolutely fascinated by the class. One of my favorites from undergrad.

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Re:Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these d... by eightorbit on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:33PM (#19503446)

I had his Chaotic Dynamical Systems book checked out from the library for years and carried it everywhere. I should find a copy, what a great book!

I wonder if there's a good sort of "postmortem" on what happened to NLD and Chaos. It seems like everyone said, "Ok, that's a thing and it explains a lot but we can't do anything with it."

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