Lorenz
Imprinting geese scientist
Lorenz is a German surname and given name, most notably associated with Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian zoologist who founded modern ethology and shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for his work on animal behavior.
In mathematics and chaos theory, the Lorenz attractor and Lorenz equations, named after meteorologist Edward Lorenz, describe how small changes in initial conditions can produce vastly different outcomes—the basis of the "butterfly effect." The name also appears in physics via the Lorentz transformation, though that spelling honors Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.
Small inputs, disproportionate results
- strange attractorFractal pattern in chaos
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
- initial conditionsState at time zero
nonlinearity · deterministic chaos · bifurcation · fractals · turbulence · emergence · feedback loops · iteration
Rapid early learning attachment
- geesePlural of goose
- animal behaviorActions of living creatures
- Nobel PrizeHighest academic honor
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
instinct · fixed action pattern · greylag · courtship · territoriality · social bonding · behavioral genetics · animal communication
butterfly effect
Small inputs, disproportionate results
- strange attractorFractal pattern in chaos
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
initial conditions · nonlinearity · deterministic chaos · bifurcation · fractals · turbulence · emergence · feedback loops · iteration · self-organization
imprinting
Rapid early learning attachment
- geesePlural of goose
- animal behaviorActions of living creatures
- Nobel PrizeHighest academic honor
aggression · instinct · fixed action pattern · greylag · courtship · territoriality · social bonding · behavioral genetics · animal communication · biological rhythms
LorenzPavlov
Conditioning reflex discoverer
Skinner · Watson · behaviorism · behaviorists
- Sophia Loren
- Konrad LorenzFather of ethology