Michel Hénon is a French mathematician and astrophysicist best known for his contributions to dynamical systems and celestial mechanics. He is particularly renowned for the Hénon map, a specific type of chaotic map that serves as an important example in the study of dynamical systems and chaos theory. The Hénon map is a discrete-time dynamical system that can exhibit chaotic behavior, and it has been widely studied for its complex structures, including strange attractors.
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