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Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations

Named objects that arise from iterating a map or evolving a differential equation over time. Belongs here: the Mandelbrot Set and Julia Sets, the fractal sets generated by iterating a simple complex quadratic map; the Lorenz Attractor, the strange attractor that gave chaos theory one of its first pictures. Does not belong here: the general theory of dynamical systems or differential equations, the branch entity Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, and static geometric fractals such as the Sierpinski Triangle or the Hilbert Curve, filed under Geometry below because their own live SubLabel places them there.

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1892 1
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1. Dynamical system (Wikipedia)
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Many people regard French mathematician Henri Poincare as the founder of dynamical systems. Poincare published two now classical monographs, New Methods of Celestial Mechanics (1892-1899).
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