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
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Revised Mon 15 May 2000 by Ralph Abraham