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Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer

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When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.

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March 2008
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butterfly effect

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During World Mathematical Year 2000 a sequence of posters were displayed month by month in the trains of the London Underground aiming to stimulate, fascinate - even infuriate passengers! Keith Moffatt tells us about three of the posters from the series.

Tags: Fibonacci number : chaos : differential equation : Golden Ratio : fluid mechanics : advection-diffusion equation : meteorology : Lorenz equations : butterfly effect : strange attractor : dynamical system


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All of science can be regarded as motivated by the search for rules behind the randomness of nature, and attempts to make prediction in the presence of uncertainty. Chris Budd describes the search for pattern and order in chaos.

Tags: Newtonian mechanics : butterfly effect : prediction : Galileo : pendulum : weather forecasting : planetary motion : Lorenz : period : Laplace : double pendulum : town planning


Tags: chaos : meteorology : butterfly effect : tornados


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Chaotic Christmas? Try crocheting chaos!

Tags: Lorenz equations : butterfly effect : weather : Lorenz


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The father of chaos theory dies

Tags: chaos : butterfly effect : Lorenz attractor : Lorenz