Background
Takens was born in Zaandam in the Netherlands.
mathematician university professor
Takens was born in Zaandam in the Netherlands.
He attended schools in The Hague and in Zaandam before serving in the Dutch army for one year (1960–1961).
Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Takens also established the result now known as the Takens" theorem, which shows how to reconstruct a dynamical system from an observed time-series.
At the University of Amsterdam he concluded his undergraduate and graduate studies.
After his graduate work, Takens spent a year at the IHES, in Bures-sur-Yvette, near Paris, where he worked with David Ruelle, René Thom, and Jacob Palis. His friendship with Palis has taken him many times to the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Their collaboration produced several joint publications. Takens was a professor at the University of Groningen, in Groningen, Netherlands from 1972 until he retired from teaching in 1999.
The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (since 1981), and The editorial board for the Springer-Verlag"s Lecture Notes in Mathematics.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]
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