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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">French mathematician and astronomer (1931–2013)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">7 April 2013<span style="display:none">(2013-04-07)</span> (aged 81)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9non_map" title="Hénon map">Hénon map</a><br /><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9non%E2%80%93Heiles_system" title="Hénon–Heiles system">Hénon–Heiles system</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Three-body_problem#Special-case_solutions" title="Three-body problem">Broucke–Henon–Hadjidemetriou periodic orbits</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brouwer_Award_(Division_on_Dynamical_Astronomy)" title="Brouwer Award (Division on Dynamical Astronomy)">Brouwer Award</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1983)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Prix_Jean_Ricard" title="Prix Jean Ricard">Prix Jean Ricard</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1978)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/French_National_Centre_for_Scientific_Research" title="French National Centre for Scientific Research">CNRS</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Arizona" title="University of Arizona">University of Arizona</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michel Hénon</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">French:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[enɔ̃]</a></span>; 23 July 1931, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> – 7 April 2013, <a href="/wiki/Nice" title="Nice">Nice</a>) was a French <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a> and <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked for a long time at the <a href="/wiki/Nice_Observatory" title="Nice Observatory">Nice Observatory</a>. </p><p>In astronomy, Hénon is well known for his contributions to <a href="/wiki/Stellar_dynamics" title="Stellar dynamics">stellar dynamics</a>. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he made important contributions on the dynamical evolution of star clusters, in particular <a href="/wiki/Globular_cluster" title="Globular cluster">globular clusters</a>. He developed a numerical technique using <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method" title="Monte Carlo method">Monte Carlo methods</a> to follow the dynamical evolution of a spherical star cluster much faster than the so-called <a href="/wiki/N-body_problem" title="N-body problem"><i>n</i>-body methods</a>. </p><p>In mathematics, he is well known for the <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9non_map" title="Hénon map">Hénon map</a>, a simple discrete <a href="/wiki/Dynamical_system" title="Dynamical system">dynamical system</a> that exhibits <a href="/wiki/Chaos_theory" title="Chaos theory">chaotic behavior</a>. </p><p>He published a two-volume work on the <a href="/wiki/Restricted_three-body_problem" class="mw-redirect" title="Restricted three-body problem">restricted three-body problem</a>. </p><p>In 1978 he was awarded the <i><a href="/wiki/Prix_Jean_Ricard" title="Prix Jean Ricard">Prix Jean Ricard</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="margin: 10px 0px">Theorems</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ergodic_theory#Ergodic_theorems" title="Ergodic theory">Ergodic theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liouville%27s_theorem_(Hamiltonian)" title="Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)">Liouville's theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krylov%E2%80%93Bogolyubov_theorem" title="Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem">Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%E2%80%93Bendixson_theorem" title="Poincaré–Bendixson theorem">Poincaré–Bendixson theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem" title="Poincaré recurrence theorem">Poincaré recurrence theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stable_manifold_theorem" title="Stable manifold theorem">Stable manifold theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takens%27s_theorem" title="Takens's theorem">Takens's 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title="Dynamical system">Dynamical system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ergodic_theory" title="Ergodic theory">Ergodic theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_chaos" title="Quantum chaos">Quantum chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stability_theory" title="Stability theory">Stability theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synchronization_of_chaos" title="Synchronization of chaos">Synchronization of chaos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chaotic<br />maps (<a href="/wiki/List_of_chaotic_maps" title="List of chaotic maps">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="margin: 10px 0px">Discrete</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arnold%27s_cat_map" title="Arnold's cat map">Arnold's cat map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baker%27s_map" title="Baker's map">Baker's map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complex_quadratic_polynomial" title="Complex quadratic polynomial">Complex quadratic map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupled_map_lattice" title="Coupled map lattice">Coupled map lattice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duffing_map" title="Duffing map">Duffing map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyadic_transformation" title="Dyadic transformation">Dyadic transformation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dynamical_billiards" title="Dynamical billiards">Dynamical billiards</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outer_billiards" title="Outer billiards">outer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exponential_map_(discrete_dynamical_systems)" title="Exponential map (discrete dynamical systems)">Exponential map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gauss_iterated_map" title="Gauss iterated map">Gauss map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gingerbreadman_map" title="Gingerbreadman map">Gingerbreadman map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9non_map" title="Hénon map">Hénon map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_map" title="Horseshoe map">Horseshoe map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ikeda_map" title="Ikeda map">Ikeda map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interval_exchange_transformation" title="Interval exchange transformation">Interval exchange map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irrational_rotation" title="Irrational rotation">Irrational rotation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Yorke_map" title="Kaplan–Yorke map">Kaplan–Yorke map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langton%27s_ant" title="Langton's ant">Langton's ant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logistic_map" title="Logistic map">Logistic map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standard_map" title="Standard map">Standard map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tent_map" title="Tent map">Tent map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinkerbell_map" title="Tinkerbell map">Tinkerbell map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaslavskii_map" title="Zaslavskii map">Zaslavskii map</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="margin: 10px 0px">Continuous</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Double_scroll_attractor" class="mw-redirect" title="Double scroll attractor">Double scroll attractor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duffing_equation" title="Duffing equation">Duffing equation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorenz_system" title="Lorenz system">Lorenz system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations" title="Lotka–Volterra equations">Lotka–Volterra equations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mackey%E2%80%93Glass_equations" title="Mackey–Glass equations">Mackey–Glass equations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabinovich%E2%80%93Fabrikant_equations" title="Rabinovich–Fabrikant equations">Rabinovich–Fabrikant equations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%B6ssler_attractor" title="Rössler attractor">Rössler attractor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-body_problem" title="Three-body problem">Three-body problem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_der_Pol_oscillator" title="Van der Pol oscillator">Van der Pol oscillator</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Physical<br />systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chua%27s_circuit" title="Chua's circuit">Chua's circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rayleigh%E2%80%93B%C3%A9nard_convection" title="Rayleigh–Bénard convection">Convection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_pendulum" title="Double pendulum">Double pendulum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elastic_pendulum" title="Elastic pendulum">Elastic pendulum</a></li> <li><a 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