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Introduction
Analytic solution
Numerical solution
Validation of numerical solutions
The Poincaré section
Spatial symmetry breaking
Basins of attraction
Period-doubling bifurcations
The route to chaos
Sensitivity to initial conditions
The definition of chaos
Periodic windows
Further investigation
Richard Fitzpatrick 2006-03-29