IODICALS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
matical equations that produced orderly strings of numbers that gradu- ally gave way to disorderly ones. He noticed that certain patterns began to emerge in the breakdown. Describing them in mathematical terms consistently produced certain numbers-now known as "Feigenbaum numbers." The physicist even discovered a new universal constant (like pi): 4.669201609 . .. ,which expresses how rapidly all systems undergo something called "period doubling" o...