Références « historiques », pour ceux qui veulent lire certains des travaux originels mentionnés dans le texte
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– E. N. Lorenz. Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences vol. 20, 1963.
– B. Mandelbrot. Fractal aspects of the iteration of $z\mapsto \lambda z(1-z)$ for complex $\lambda$ and $z$. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 357 (1980).
– A. Turing. The chemical basis of morphogenesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (1952).
– N. J. Zabusky, M. D. Kruskal. Interaction of « Solitons » in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States. Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 15 (1965).
– G. S. Deem, N. J. Zabusky, M. D. Kruskal. Formation, Propagation, and Interaction of Solitons : Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations Describing Wave Motion in Nonlinear Dispersive Media. Film Library of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Whippany, NJ.