Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died

Re:Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory... by misil on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:55AM (#20360412)

If you're interested in Feigenbaum's constant, check out Numberphile's video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ.

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Re:Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory... by eridius on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:23AM (#20360784)

I learned about that function and the resulting output back in high school, but haven't looked at it since then.

I wish he'd have given at least the beginnings of an explanation as to why you can't go over 4 for lambda though. What happens?

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