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Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne

The butterfly effect: this obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong?

Edward Lorenz's mathematical weather model showed solutions with a butterfly-like shape. Wikimol

In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question:

Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

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