MM#1: Lecture #4, 7:30pm, Monday 08 May 2000
Chaotic behavior and daisyworld
- Video show
- Toral logistic lattice, by Abraham, Corliss, and Dorband
- Dorband map family, by Dorband
- Dorband map family, by Record and Abraham
- Chaotic attractors
- Dense periodic points
- Dense trajectory
- Sensitive dependance
- 2D flows
- Continuous time
- Attractors, basins, bifurcations
- The Hopf bifurcation
- Three kinds of bifurcations
- Application #2: Gaia
- James Lovelock
- Gaia hypothesis
- Biospherics
- Daisy world
- Show animation
Revised Mon 15 May 2000 by Ralph Abraham
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