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Edward Lorenz

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(person)Edward Lorenz - A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.


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Focusing on the weather, meteorologist Edward Lorenz used in 1960 equations that can only be solved with the help of the computer.
Edward Lorenz, MIT professor of meteorology who died in April at age 90, coined the phrase "butterfly effect" years ago, which asserted that if a butterfly flapped its wings in Beijing, for example, hurricane patterns as far away as the Atlantic Ocean would be affected.
Indeed, when Edward Lorenz wrote the book on Chaos Theory, he should have included a chapter on the Betfred.
 
 
 
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