Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)

Arnold's cat map: Sample mapping on a picture of 150x150 pixels. The numbers shows the iteration step. After 300 iterations arriving at the original image.

In mathematics, Arnold's cat map is a chaotic map from the torus into itself, named after Vladimir Arnold, who demonstrated its effects in the 1960s using an image of a cat, hence the name.

In the News

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  Mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold says that his cat map "is better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused."

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links:

• Arnold's cat map @ Wikipedia