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Revision as of 09:27, 18 December 2016

Edward Lorenz

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.

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