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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: 2008-04-18 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
"No, son, no! Pie are round! Cornbread are square!"

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Date: 2008-04-18 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com
You really weren't paying attention earlier, were you?

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Date: 2008-04-19 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
Old, old joke.

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