Foundational Papers in Complexity Science pp. 1599–1610
DOI: 10.37911/9781947864542.54
Finding Hidden Meaning
Author: Neil Gershenfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Excerpt
The ideas behind this article are beautiful, profound, narrowly misguided, and ultimately impactful.
It introduced the concept of time-delay embedding, reconstructing the dynamics of unseen degrees of freedom from an accessible observable. This was hypothesized in the paper (“We conjecture that any such sets of three independent quantities which uniquely and smoothly label the states of the attractor are diffeomorphically equivalent”) and illustrated (“Comparison of Figs. 1 and 2 certainly indicates that topological characteristics and geometrical form of the attractor remain intact”).
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