Writing the history of dynamical systems and chaos: `Longue durée' and revolution, disciplines and cultures

DOI10.1006/hmat.2002.2351zbMath1026.01014OpenAlexW2155969015MaRDI QIDQ1851224

David Aubin, Amy Dahan Dalmedico

Publication date: 16 December 2002

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d1fb7fe0a9d166cc80d854d963809bc63c2a0e1b

zbMATH Keywords

convergencedynamical systemsbibliographydeterministic chaosreconfigurationPoincarécomputersrevolutioninterdisciplinaritylongue-durée historyLorenzRuelleSmale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of geophysics (86-03) History of statistical mechanics (82-03) Historiography (01A85) History of fluid mechanics (76-03) History of dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-03)

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