[4] This universal result enabled mathematicians to take their first steps to unraveling the apparently intractable "random" behavior of chaotic systems.

The introduction to the Hammond Atlas (1992) states: Using fractal geometry to describe natural forms such as coastlines, mathematical physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum developed software capable of reconfiguring coastlines, borders, and mountain ranges to fit a multitude of map scales and projections.

Dr. Feigenbaum also created a new computerized type-placement program which places thousands of map labels in minutes, a task that previously required days of tedious labor.

The press release made on the occasion of his receiving the Wolf Prize summed up his works: The impact of Feigenbaum's discoveries has been phenomenal.

It is hard to think of any other development in recent theoretical science that has had so broad an impact over so wide a range of fields, spanning both the very pure and the very applied.