A Little Less Chaos In The World

[filkertom]

Mathematician Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, discoverer of "strange attractors", and coiner of the term "butterfly effect", has passed away at the age of ninety.

What's your favorite mathematical law, constant or formula? I'm an e=mc² man myself, although π and i will always hold special places in my heart.

ETA: And how could I forget the tesseract?

Comments

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I was always fond of "e to the power of x = x". Don't remember shit about what it means, but I enjoyed the possibilities inherent in the phrase "e to the power of (e to the power of x)" - just so I could shout "Eex!" in class.

Yah - I was weird.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

There are two kinds of people in the world. Weird and boring.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I thought there were 10 kinds of people in the world....

[armb.livejournal.com]

> 10 kinds of people

those who understand binary, and those who don't

[hugh57.livejournal.com]

The two kinds of people are thus: those who separate humanity into two groups, and those who don't.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I thought it was: those who separate humanity into two groups(those who separate humanity into two groups, and those who don't), and the other kind.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hey! You got your semantics into my etymology!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I thought it was those who could be categorized into one of two groups, and those who can't.