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Edward Lorenz

* 1917 West Hartford / CT
+ 2008 Cambridge / MA


   

Edward Lorenz chaos

Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.
He founded modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.



J. Giesen

2026