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Who coined the term 'butterfly effect' in chaos theory?

  • Edward Lorenz
  • Henri Poincare
  • Benoit Mandelbrot

The answer is Edward Lorenz. Lorenz, the MIT meteorologist.

Edward Norton Lorenz

Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology. He founded modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.

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