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

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

In pure mathematics, the Euler equation

e^(pi*i) + 1 = 0

is just such a weird but elegant connection.

[jss]

Augh! You beat me by seconds!

[solarbird]

That's okay, he beat me by over half an hour. (Tho' I read before commenting. ^_^ )

[jss]

Note the timestamps. We literally hit the "Post Comment" buttons within seconds of each other. :/

[mdlbear]

Yay! My favorite, too, though E8 and the 120-cell are close seconds.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

I concur.

For audacity of method, Godel's theorem definitely need to be considered as well.