Edward Norton Lorenz (1917-2008)
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:11 pm
Edward Norton Lorenz (1917-2008)
The geophysical modeling community
lost one of its greatest thinkers and modelers on April 16, 2008. Ed is considered the father of determinstic chaos and predictability. He lived a long and productive life. His contributions to the field of predictability are enormous and long standing. We all have played with his amaizing strange attractors models. I meet Ed in the early 90's when I was a Postdoc at Harvard University. I recall being blown away when attended one his frequent seminars at MIT. I had hard time understanding what he was talking about. We invited him to give a seminar at Harvard a year later. This time, I was prepared by reading the relevant papers prior to his seminar. He is well known for writting very elegant and compact computer codes. He certainly will be missed...
The geophysical modeling community
lost one of its greatest thinkers and modelers on April 16, 2008. Ed is considered the father of determinstic chaos and predictability. He lived a long and productive life. His contributions to the field of predictability are enormous and long standing. We all have played with his amaizing strange attractors models. I meet Ed in the early 90's when I was a Postdoc at Harvard University. I recall being blown away when attended one his frequent seminars at MIT. I had hard time understanding what he was talking about. We invited him to give a seminar at Harvard a year later. This time, I was prepared by reading the relevant papers prior to his seminar. He is well known for writting very elegant and compact computer codes. He certainly will be missed...