PersonEdward Lorenz
Edward Lorenz
An American meteorologist and one of the founders of chaos theory. In the 1960s, through numerical simulation, he discovered that small perturbations in initial conditions grow exponentially, proposed the concept of the butterfly effect, and revealed the predictability limit of weather forecasting.
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Oct 14
In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz discovered in numerical simulations that small perturbations in initial conditions grow exponentially, creating a theoretical ceiling for long-term forecasting.
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