Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dies
Thu Apr 17, 12:57 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist who became the father of the modern field of chaos theory, died Wednesday of cancer in Massachusetts aged 90, MIT announced Thursday.
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lorenz was the first to identify chaotic behavior in the mathematical modeling of weather systems, in which small differences in a dynamic system, like the weather, "could trigger vast and often unsuspected results," the university said.
A committee that awarded him the 1991 Kyoto prize for basic sciences wrote that Lorenz's groundbreaking theory represented "one of the most dramatic changes in mankind's view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton."
Lorenz's research led him to develop what became known as the "butterfly effect," the idea that an infinitesimally small alteration -- like the flapping of an insect's wings -- can lead to potentially monumental consequences.
The term stemmed from his 1972 academic paper "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set off a Tornado in Texas?"
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Alright, time to fess up, who started the chain reaction that gave him cancer.
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I just saw a movie in which the main character is an adherent to "Chaos Theory". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402910/ The movie is appropriately entitled Chaos... (not kidding)...
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I like the movie The Butterfly Effect.
Hard as ever and here to make you people believe...as long as there is one person to hold hope and dream...A GOD...will never die!
In the city of Boston, if you exit the train at the stop for (I think it was) Cambridge, there is a wall that mentions the accomplishments of people from MIT, I found this guy interesting and I did not know he has dead until today.
acumulusnine out
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The most Beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert E.
father of comma splice, lives
great pointless comma in the title there. it ruined the whole article for me
I apologize?
The most Beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert E.
line up to be fired from the cannon
*whew* God bless you for your mercy.
I thought I was going to have to meet you in the town square with your wheel barrow full of stones...
The most Beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert E.
The trick is to bring your own filled wheelbarrow too.
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What are you talking about?Originally Posted by Lord_of_the_Dense
He's going to have to catch me as it is...
The most Beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert E.
Let the spankings begin.
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I would have to run a LOT faster if I were running from you.
The most Beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert E.
Admit it you would not runn that fast
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