• Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and...
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    The Lorenz system is a system of ordinary differential equations first studied by mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz. It is notable for having...
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    deterministic chaos, or simply chaos. The theory was summarized by Edward Lorenz as: Chaos: When the present determines the future but the approximate...
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    a large change in outcome. The scientific concept is attributed to Edward Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist who used the metaphor to describe...
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  • The Lorenz 96 model is a dynamical system formulated by Edward Lorenz in 1996. It is defined as follows. For i = 1 , . . . , N {\displaystyle i=1,......
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  • simple nonlinear dynamical equations. The map, initially utilized by Edward Lorenz in the 1960s to showcase irregular solutions (e.g., Eq. 3 of ), was...
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  • pure computer science today. Since the beginning of chaos theory, when Edward Lorenz accidentally discovered a strange attractor with his computer, computers...
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  • Fetter Gille is an American computer scientist. She worked with Edward Norton Lorenz on chaos theory. Fetter was born to Frank Whitson Fetter and Elizabeth...
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    figure." Charney's work also influenced that of his close colleague Edward Lorenz, who explored the limitations of predictability and was a pioneer of...
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  • artist Barbara Lorenz, make-up artist Carl Lorenz (1913–1993), German cyclist Christian Lorenz (born 1966), German musician Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008)...
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    Discussion (63 min video film, interviews with Benoît Mandelbrot and Edward Lorenz, computer animations), W.H. Freeman and Company, 1990. ISBN 0-7167-2213-5...
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    associated with the work of the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. He noted that the butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical...
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    of the atmosphere was first observed and mathematically described by Edward Lorenz, founding the field of chaos theory. These advances have led to the...
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    3–5% of the total number of cyclones. In the classic analysis by Edward Lorenz (the Lorenz energy cycle), extratropical cyclones (so-called atmospheric transients)...
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  • Williams, 498 p. (Cambridge University Press, 2006); ISBN 0-521-82197-5 "Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90". MIT. 2008-04-16...
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    {\displaystyle x_{max}(n+1)} . In the original paper on the Lorenz Attractor, Edward Lorenz analyzed the local maxima of z {\displaystyle z} against the...
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    Weather Service reporting stations in the United States. As proposed by Edward Lorenz in 1963, long range forecasts, those made at a range of two weeks or...
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    in vastly different outcomes. The term was coined by mathematician Edward Lorenz years after the phenomenon was first described. The butterfly effect...
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    the first woman to serve as Connecticut State Treasurer (1986–1987) Edward Lorenz, mathematician and meteorologist, early pioneer of chaos theory, inventor...
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    Society Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award (2015) Lorenz Lecturer (2012), a lecture named after Edward Lorenz and presented at the American Geophysical Union...
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  • security cybersecurity measures, thus limiting the issue. As proposed by Edward Lorenz in 1963, long range weather forecasts, those made at a range of two...
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    pressures in polar and temperate latitudes was first identified by Edward Lorenz and named in 1998 by David W.J. Thompson and John Michael Wallace. The...
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    and 4,500 diodes, sold for $87,500 and weighed 500 pounds (230 kg). Edward Lorenz used the LGP-30 in his attempt to model changing weather patterns. His...
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  • Retrieved 4 July 2009. Smith, Leonard A. (23 October 2011). "Professor Edward Lorenz: Meteorologist whose work on weather prediction led to the discovery...
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  • Earth-observing satellites NASA and NOAA have launched since then. 1961 – Edward Lorenz accidentally discovers Chaos theory when working on numerical weather...
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    chance for thunderstorms, cloudiness, and surface winds. In 1963, Edward Lorenz discovered the chaotic nature of the fluid dynamics equations involved...
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  • from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis adviser was Edward Lorenz. In 1965 he published the book "Physical Climatology". Celebrating the...
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    general atmospheric circulation. It is named after the meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz who worked on its mathematical formulation in the 1950s. Any atmospheric...
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  • Sierpiński numbers. Finding serendipitous numerical patterns Edward Lorenz found the Lorenz attractor, an early example of a chaotic dynamical system, by...
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    different results from the models run can be compared. As proposed by Edward Lorenz in 1963, it is impossible for long-range forecasts—those made more than...
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