In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Over the next 50 years, the so-called “butterfly ...
In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...