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Revision as of 08:27, 18 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
Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
New autobiography of Chaos theory hails Edward Lorenz as quiet genius.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Edward Norton Lorenz @ Wikipedia