When1: 1976
Who: Robert May [May, Robert]
What: biologist
Where: USA
works\ Simple Mathematical Models with Very Complicated Dynamics [1976]
Detail: Assign initial number to logistic difference equation. Low rate values make number go to zero. Medium values make number go higher steady-state numbers. After high initial value, system oscillates between two values. After even higher initial value, system oscillates among four values. After even higher initial values, system oscillates among 8, 16, 32, and so on, values, with smaller differences between rates, until chaos starts {point of accumulation} {accumulation point, complexity}. After that point, oscillations are among all values. However, at higher points, oscillations are among 3 or 7 values, then oscillations are among 6, 9, 12, 14, 21, 28, and so on, values, then chaos returns again.
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