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		gowld 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The math that explains why bell curves are everywh... That makes it an equilibrium point in function space, but the other half is why it's an a global attractor.

pfortuny 32 days ago [–]

There must be a contractive nature in "passing to the limit". And then Brower's fixed point theorem.

(I know it is very easy to do "maths" this way).

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