Mathematician:Floris Takens
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Mathematician
Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems.
Coined the term strange attractor with David Pierre Ruelle.
Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: 12 November 1940 in Zaandam, Netherlands
- Died: 20 June 2010
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1969: The minimal number of critical points of a function on a compact manifold and the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category
- 1971: On the nature of turbulence (Commun. Math. Phys. Vol. 20, no. 3: pp. 167 – 192) (with David Ruelle)
- 1981: Detecting strange attractors in turbulence