数学家对一元连续函数的研究,少说也有两三百年了。几乎所有的数学大师都涉足过这一领域,并获得了累累硕果。可是谁能想到,在这块被前辈巨匠们反复耕耘过的田园里,竟还有未被开垦的处女地,并生长出人们从未见过的奇葩———浑沌。本世纪60年代,澳大利亚的生物学家罗伯特·梅的 The mathematician’s research on the one-dimensional continuous function is less than two to three hundred years old. Almost all mathematics masters have been involved in this field and have achieved great success. But who would have thought that in this pastoral field that had been repeatedly cultivated by the great masters of the older generation, there were still virgin lands that had not been cultivated, and there had been wonderful things that people had never seen – the chaos. In the 1960s, Australian biologist Robert May