Abstract
Three types of attractors were introduced in the last chapter: fixedpoint, limit cycle, and torus. Each is associated with a different type of motion, and each is important in dynamics. The understanding of attractors was an important milestone. In this chapter we will see that there is another type of attractor, called the strange attractor, and it will play a key role in chaos theory.
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Parker, B. (1996). Strange Attractors. In: Chaos in the Cosmos. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3370-6_5
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