MM#1: Lecture #3, 7:30pm, Monday 01 May 2000
Attractors, bifurcations, arms races


Review of concepts of chaos theory
SX: Stairway to Xaos
KL: Koenigs-Lemeray construction (vertigo-horrid)
FP: Fixed Points
PP: Periodic Points
New concepts of chaos theory
Attracting versus repelling FPs
Attracting versus repelling PPs
Attractors and their basins
Attractor-basin portraits
Families of maps
Response diagrams (logistic, cubic)
Chaotic attractors
Application #1: arms race models
Bio of Lewis Frye Richardson
Arms race model of Isnard and Zeeman

Revised Tue 02 May 2000 by Ralph Abraham