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Chapter 4: Systems Based on Numbers
Section 7: Iterated Maps and the Chaos Phenomenon


*History of iterated maps

*History of chaos theory

*Exact iterates [in iterated maps]

*Problems with computer experiments [in chaos theory]

*Mathematical perspectives [on iterated map complexity]

*Information content of initial conditions

*Smooth iterated maps

*Higher-dimensional generalizations [of iterated maps]

*Distribution of chaotic behavior

*Lyapunov exponents

*Chaos in nature

*[Iterated maps from] bitwise operations



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