Mathematician:Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum

Mathematician

American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 19 December 1944 in Philadelphia, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• First Feigenbaum Constant
• Second Feigenbaum Constant

Definitions of concepts named for Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum can be found here.

Publications

• 1978: Quantitative Universality for a Class of Non-Linear Transformations (J. Stat. Phys. Vol. 19: pp. 25 – 52)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Feigenbaum, Mitchell (1945-  )