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RIP: Edward Lorenz

Apr 20th, 2008
by Dave Pattern.
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Very sad to see that Edward Lorenz, one of the founding fathers of Chaos Theory, has died. There can't be many people who aren't familiar with the concept expressed in the title of his 1972 paper "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Lorenz was awarded [...]