The Logistic Map and the Route to Chaos From The Beginnings to Modern Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ausloos, Marcel (Editor), Dirickx, Michel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Applications of Mathematics.

Pierre-Francois Verhulst, with his seminal work using the logistic map to describe population growth and saturation, paved the way for the many applications of this tool in modern mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, economics and sociology. Indeed nowadays the logistic map is considered a usef...