| Origin | 1800s |
| Applications | Weather forecasting • Biology • Computer science • Economics • Engineering |
| Also known as | Nonlinear dynamics, Sensitive dependence on initial conditions |
| Main principles | Sensitive dependence on initial conditions • Feigenbaum constants • Strange attractors • Period doubling • Bifurcation |
| Influential works | Poincaré's work on celestial mechanics • Edward Lorenz's paper on weather prediction • Mitchell Feigenbaum's paper on period doubling |
| Significant events | Discovery of Lorenz attractor • Mandelbrot's discovery of fractals • Discovery of Feigenbaum constants |
| Development histories | Mathematics • Physics • Computer science |
| Influential researchers | Henri Poincaré • Edward Lorenz • Beniot Mandelbrot • Mitchell Feigenbaum |
