Deterministic Chaos - History and People

Henri Poincaré, Edward Lorenz and Mitchell Feigenbaum

Henri Poincaré: Poincaré first pioneered chaos theory by attempting to solve the three-body problem, which is featured on the Overview page. Poincare's biography at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward Lorenz: MIT News obituary of Edward Lorenz Mitchell Feigenbaum: Prologue from Chaos by James Gleick Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum, from The Genius of Science Another excerpt from Gleick's book Feigenbaum's biography at Mactutor (a mathematics biography site) Other influential people: George David Birkhoff Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright Brosl Hasslacher Michel Hénon Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov John Edensor Littlewood Norman Levinson Aleksandr Lyapunov Benoît Mandelbrot Otto Rössler David Ruelle Stephen Smale Floris Takens James A. Yorke

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