An introduction to the unpublished book "Reflections on a Tube" by Mitchell J. Feigenbaum.
| Autor: | Eckmann JP; Département de Physique Théorique and Section de Mathématiques, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) [Chaos] 2023 Aug 01; Vol. 33 (8). |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0149428 |
| Abstrakt: | This paper is an adaptation of the introduction to a book project by the late Mitchell J. Feigenbaum (1944-2019). While Feigenbaum is certainly mostly known for his theory of period doubling cascades, he had a lifelong interest in optics. His book project is an extremely original discussion of the apparently very simple study of anamorphs, that is, the reflections of images on a cylindrical mirror. He observed that there are two images to be seen in the tube and discovered that the brain preferentially chooses one of them. I edited and wrote an introduction to this planned book. As the book is still not published, I have now adapted my introduction as a standalone article so that some of Feigenbaum's remarkable work will be accessible to a larger audience. (© 2023 Author(s). Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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