Edward Lorenz, 90, MIT professor developed chaos theory

Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist whose meticulous attempt to predict the weather through an early computer unraveled into a spectacular failure that he turned into the chaos theory, died at his home in Cambridge yesterday. He was 90. (Full article: 648 words)

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