Remarkably, for an attractor of dimension D, the Takens embedding theorem [Lect. Notes. in Math. vol.898 (1981) p366] indicates that for quite general intervals there exists an embedding dimension
m ≤ 2D+1 and a smooth map such that
i.e. despite the possibly infinite dimensionality of the state space, the attractor and the dynamics on it can be captured in for some m no bigger than 2D+1 !!!!