Lorenz's Work In The Chaos Field And Basic Chaos
Beginning of paper
Edward Lorenz was a mathematical meteorologist during the 1960s. In
1961, an experiment with a primitive weather predicting program lead to the
discovery of the theory of chaos. Lorenz defined chaos as "a system that
has two states that look the same on separate occasions, but can develop
into sta ....
Middle of paper
.... at the
previous sequence's mid-point. He entered the information and supposedly
went for coffee. When he returned, he was confused to find results of the
beginning of the new sequence not matching up with the results of the
middle of the last run. The numbers were not very close and growing farther
apart as the sequence progressed. Lorenz then thought there was a bug in
the system. After much double checking, he found the problem. When he had
entered the data into the second run, he had shor ....
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