AN UNGUIDED TOUR STARTED FROM CHIRALITY

摘要

This survey article records an unguided mathematical tour by topologists at Peking University and their collaborators in the last ten years. The tour started from research on chirality and, attracted by questions around attractors, led to a zigzag path across topology and dynamics.People who joined us in this tour at various stages include Ding Fan, Liu Yi, Ni Yi, Pan Jianzhong, Yao Jiangang, Zheng Hao and Zhou Qing. Conversations with Robert Edwards, Wen Lan and others, added to the twists and turns that made the trip more fun.This article benefits from related lectures by these authors, in many conferences, universi-ties, as well as high schools.