Mathematician:Floris Takens

Mathematician

Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems.

Coined the term strange attractor with David Pierre Ruelle.

Nationality

Dutch

History

• Born: 12 November 1940 in Zaandam, Netherlands
• Died: 20 June 2010

Theorems and Definitions

• Takens's Theorem

• Bogdanov-Takens Bifurcation (with Rifkat Ibragimovich Bogdanov)

Publications

• 1969: The minimal number of critical points of a function on a compact manifold and the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category

• 1971: On the nature of turbulence (Commun. Math. Phys. Vol. 20, no. 3: pp. 167 – 192) (with David Ruelle)

• 1981: Detecting strange attractors in turbulence