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“Prédictibilité : le battement d'ailes d'un papillon au Brésil peut-il provoquer une tornade au Texas?”

Edward Lorenz

En 1972, il fait une conférence à lAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science intitulée (le titre n'est en fait pas de Lorenz, mais d'un autre météorologue, Philip Merilees, organisateur de la conférence; Lorenz l'a découvert trop tard pour pouvoir en changer) : « Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set off a Tornado in Texas?
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Edward Lorenz: Citations en anglais

“We see that each surface is really a pair of surfaces, so that, where they appear to merge, there are really four surfaces. Continuing this process for another circuit, we see that there are really eight surfaces etc and we finally conclude that there is an infinite complex of surfaces, each extremely close to one or the other of two merging surfaces.”

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Edward Norton Lorenz

Lorenz (1963) "Deterministic nonperiodic flow", in: J. Atmos. Sci. 20, 130–141. cited in: T.N. Palmer (2008) " Edward Norton Lorenz. 23 May 1917 −− 16 April 2008 http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/55/139.full.pdf" in: Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 2009 55, 139-155

“Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood, and there will undoubtedly always be many challenging problems to solve. nevertheless, I believed that some of the unsolved meteorological problems were more fundamental, and I felt confident that I could contribute to some of their solutions.”

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Edward Norton Lorenz

Lorentz (1991) " A scientist by choice". Speech by acceptance of the Kyoto Prize in 1991, cited in: Kerry Emanuel (2009) [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lorenz-edward.pdf Edward Norton Lorenz 1917-2008 http://eaps4.mit.edu/research/Lorenz/Miscellaneous/Scientist_by_Choice.pdf. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir.