Chaos Theory
By
Ron Clemens
Per 3 English
Mr.Ortiz
4/18/2005

What exactly is chaos theory? From the understanding of many scientists such as Edward Lorenz, Ian Stewart, and Robert May the chaos theory relatively means the same thing. Each of these scientists contributed to the science of chaos theory.
First and Foremost chaos theory itself comes from the seemingly half-hazard way things seem to happen in its equations, but chaos theory is really about finding the similarities between these seemingly random events in an equation.
Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist, discovered this theory when he was working on a calculation for weather prediction on his computer. He set his computer to use 12 different equations to model the weather. The computer didn't necessarily predict the weather. It just gave a guess at where the weather might be. Using these twelve different equations he tried running the model of the weather. After the equation was done he went away from his......

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