Robert McCredie May

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Robert McCredie May

American scientist

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principles of physical science
Chaos
…following an inspiring exposition by Robert M. May. Suppose one constructs a sequence of numbers starting with an arbitrarily chosen x₀ (between 0 and 1) and writes the next in the sequence, x₁, as Ax₀(1 − x₀); proceeding in the same way to x₂ = Ax₁(1 − x₁), one can…
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…following an inspiring exposition by Robert M. May. Suppose one constructs a sequence of numbers starting with an arbitrarily chosen x₀ (between 0 and 1) and writes the next in the sequence, x₁, as Ax₀(1 − x₀); proceeding in the same way to x₂ = Ax₁(1 − x₁), one can…
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