![]() ![]() Unfortunately, as with most things in mathematics, it is never quite that simple. This means that given a very small change to a system, we can achieve wildly different outcomes. The flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in Texas ![]() The definition given in most pop culture media is the butterfly effect: In Gleick’s book Chaos, the author interviewed a whole bunch of chaos scientists (chaosists?) and not one of them could agree on a definition of chaos. Not because of the choice of axioms or some of the results, but due to the fact that no-one can agree what chaos actually means. Why the Butterfly Effect is not the whole storyĬhaos theory is potentially one of the most controversial fields in mathematics. ![]()
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