Références « historiques », pour ceux qui veulent lire certains des travaux originels mentionnés dans le texte

 B. J. Birch, H. P. F. Swinnerton-Dyer. Notes on elliptic curves. I. J. Reine Angew. Math. vol. 212, 1963.

 P. Coullet, C. Tresser. Itérations d’endomorphismes et groupe de renormalisation. Le Journal de Physique vol. 35, 1978.

 M. Feigenbaum. Quantitative Universality for a Class of Non-Linear Transformations. J. Stat. Phys. vol. 19, 1978.

 E. Fermi, J. Pasta et S. Ulam. Studies of Nonlinear Problems. Document Los Alamos 1940 (May 1955).

 M. Hénon, C. Heiles. The applicability of the third integral of motion : Some numerical experiments. The Astrophysical Journal 69 (1964).

 M. Hénon. A two-dimensional mapping with a strange attractor. Comm. Math. Phys. vol. 50, 1976.

 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.