Applications such as the (2) equation can also exhibit chaotic behavior. The most classic example is the logistic parabola depending on a variable x and a parameter µ.
We will introduce this equation by studying the behaviour of an isolated insect population on an island. The population xj + 1 of insects in summer (j + 1) depends, in a simple model, on the population xj in summer j, according to the relationship :
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