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Revision as of 18:53, 10 December 2016
Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician, meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory.
He introduced the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect.
In the News
Phase-space diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Edward Norton Lorenz @ Wikipedia