As requested by readers, editor Andy Turudic demonstrates that it’s child’s play to set up an Analog Computer to compute a Lorenz Attractor. Anabrid’s THAT Analog Computer provides a flexible, ...

[Janis Alnis] wanted to build an analog computer circuit and bought some multiplier chips. The first attempt used apparently fake chips that were prone to overheating. He was able to get it to work ...

This is what it looks like when you access Strange Attractors. Countless points are gathered together to form a cube. Normally, the behavior of points is defined by a differential equation, and the ...

It's poetic, the notion that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can set off a cascade of atmospheric events that, weeks later, spurs the formation of a tornado in Texas. This so-called ...

I found myself in Milton Keynes, UK, a little while ago, with a few hours to spare. What could I do but rock over to the National Museum of Computing and make a nuisance of myself? I have visited many ...

Professor Edward Lorenz, who died on Wednesday aged 90, was a mathematician and meteorologist who was one of the early exponents of chaos theory and in particular of the "butterfly effect": the notion ...