Feigenbaum, Mitchell

In 1975 Mitchell Feigenbaum described a general characteristic among the critical values of ft given as... 

Mitchell Feigenbaum, quoted in James Gleick, Chaos Making a New Science (New York Penguin, 1988), p. 185. 

Mitchell Feigenbaum (b.1944), American physicist, employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and then professor at the Cornell University and at the Rockefeller University. Feigenbaum discovered attractors after making some observations just playing with a pocket calculator. 

Mitchell Feigenbaum was interested to see at which value K (n) the next bifiiicatiai into 2" branches occurs. It turned out that there is a certain r ularity namely, lim/i, oo 4.669201609... = 5. To the... 

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