Mitchell Feigenbaum is an American mathematical physicist renowned for his groundbreaking work in the field of chaos theory. He is best known for discovering the Feigenbaum constants, which describe the geometrical properties of bifurcations in dynamical systems. Specifically, these constants characterize how systems transition from orderly and periodic behavior to chaotic behavior through a process known as period-doubling bifurcation.
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