English Explanatory Dictionary

Arnold's cat map

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A chaotic map from the torus into itself.

Word forms

Arnold's cat map

Etymology

Named after Vladimir Arnold, who demonstrated its effects in the 1960s using an image of a cat.

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