WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, who showed how small actions could lead to major changes in what became known as the "butterfly effect," died of cancer on Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON -- Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday. He was 90. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he came up ...

A little over half a century ago, chaos started spilling out of a famous experiment. It came not from a petri dish, a beaker or an astronomical observatory, but from the vacuum tubes and diodes of a ...

Edward N. Lorenz, the MIT meteorologist whose efforts to use computers to increase the precision of weather forecasts inadvertently led to the discovery of chaos theory and demonstrated that precise ...

A team of Italian scientists has figured out a way to turn the striking, complex twisting shapes of chaos theory into actual jewelry, according to a new paper published in the journal Chaos. These ...

Chaos in all its forms can be considered anxiety inducing. However, in “The Lorenz Cycle: a Collection of Short Plays” by Jodi VanDerHorn-Gibson, chaos is explained in a collection of amusing plays.

Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died yesterday at his home in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday. He was 90. As a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he came up with the ...