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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?

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Date: 2008-04-17 07:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jss
Augh! You beat me by seconds!

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Date: 2008-04-17 10:31 pm (UTC)
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That's okay, he beat me by over half an hour. (Tho' I read before commenting. ^_^ )

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Date: 2008-04-17 10:56 pm (UTC)
jss: (badger)
From: [personal profile] jss
Note the timestamps. We literally hit the "Post Comment" buttons within seconds of each other. :/

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