Why is it so hard to predict the weather accurately? The field of mathematics known as chaos theory has the answer, writes DrEugeniaCheng.
In the days before I have to travel, I start checking the weather forecast to see what I’ll need to pack and if my flight is likely to be delayed. At this time of year, as the seasons are shifting, the forecast seems particularly prone to changing every day, sometimes even hour by hour. If the weather forecast is wrong, we might be tempted to blame the meteorologists, but it could be the fault of the mathematics.
The weather is what mathematicians call a dynamical system. This means that if we input data about the system as...
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