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Robert May Has Died
- ColinWright 7y agoRobert May was one of the early investigators of the phenomenon of chaos in iterated systems. That work is related to the butterfly-shaped Lorenz Attractor, and to the Mandlebrot Set. Perhaps a good place to start to explore some of these things is the Logistic map[0], first popularised in 1976 in a paper by Robert May. It's the investigation of this iterative equation: x_{n+1} = r * x_{n} * ( 1 - x_{n} ) Different values of r can lead to wildly differing behaviours, including the onset of chaos. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
- eesmith 7y agoI can't find any confirmation of his death. It isn't mentioned on bbc.com, it isn't found in a DDG news search nor a Google one, in the Wikipedia talk there's a question for confirmation, and the edit history shows a recent revert with the comment "there is no source that confirms his alleged death".
- ColinWright 7y agoIt's on the Wikipedia page as of 2020/04/29 @ 11:22 Zulu