Etymology

Poincaré map

Today it means: The intersection of a periodic orbit in the state space of a continuous dynamical system with a certain lower-dimensional subspace (the Poincaré section), transversal to the flow of the system. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Henri Poincaré.

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