In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward ... the Lorenz attractor—looked strikingly like a butterfly with two looping wings. Lorenz's efforts to understand weather led him to develop chaos theory ...

When the Butterfly Effect Took Flight March/April 2011 Half a century ago, Edward Lorenz, SM ‘43, ScD ‘48, overthrew the idea of the clockwork universe with his ground-breaking research on chaos.

Both Otis and John underwent extremely rapid intensification that turned them from modest tropical storms into major ...

Serendipity is a term often misused, but if anyone in modern science could lay claim to it, it was Edward Lorenz ... to lodge chaos in the public imagination: “Does the flap of a butterfly's ...

This isn’t what I had in mind when I studied Edward Lorenz’s chaos theory. Lorenz was a mathematician and meteorologist perhaps most famous for his description of the “butterfly effect,” which poses ...