11 Facts About Mitchell Feigenbaum

Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.

Mitchell Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jewish emigrants from Poland and Ukraine.

Mitchell Feigenbaum attended Samuel J Tilden High School, in Brooklyn, New York, and the City College of New York.

Mitchell Feigenbaum completed his doctorate in 1970 for a thesis on dispersion relations, under the supervision of Professor Francis E Low.

Mitchell Feigenbaum was a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at the Scripps Research Institute.

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Mitchell Feigenbaum was Toyota Professor at Rockefeller University from 1986 until his death.

In 1975, Dr Mitchell Feigenbaum, using the small HP-65 calculator he had been issued, discovered that the ratio of the difference between the values at which such successive period-doubling bifurcations occur tends to a constant of around 4.

Mitchell Feigenbaum was able to provide a mathematical argument of that fact, and he then showed that the same behavior, with the same mathematical constant, would occur within a wide class of mathematical functions, prior to the onset of chaos.

Logistic map is a prominent example of the mappings that Mitchell Feigenbaum studied in his noted 1978 article: "Quantitative Universality for a Class of Nonlinear Transformations".

Dr Mitchell Feigenbaum created a new computerized type-placement program which places thousands of map labels in minutes, a task that previously required days of tedious labor.

Mitchell Feigenbaum's initial product was a software algorithm that dramatically reduced the time required for Monte Carlo pricing of exotic financial derivatives and structured products.