Essay Archive - Lorenz's Work in the Chaos Field and Basic Chaos
Lorenz's Work in the Chaos Field and Basic Chaos
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 states that are noticeably different.” He started exploring further
into the chaos field and performing experiments that lead to his discovery
of the Lorenz equations in 1963.
In 1961, Lorenz developed a weather model consisting o....
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