How to Use chaos theory in a Sentence

chaos theory

noun

• That’s what chaos theory guy (Jeff Goldblum) seems to promise in the trailer.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 June 2018
• At least, that’s the idea in the mathematical world of chaos theory.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
• But that’s about where the chaos theory ended in this NCAA tournament.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• The flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a typhoon half the world away, at least according to popular versions of the idea known as chaos theory.
  — WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
• The challenge Yanagihara sets for the reader isn’t so much to decode a puzzle as to survive a plunge into chaos theory.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2021
• Your inner Stoppard gong should ring at that; this is the playwright who taught us chaos theory and probability.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• But from that starting point, the ball could be passed to just about any warm body in either uniform in any number of sequences - chaos theory come to life in the form of two worn-down but talented pitching staffs.
  — Author: Dave Sheinin, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2019
• His chaos theory of White House management, on morbid public display this week, also means no one on Capitol Hill knows who is in charge.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• And it is rescued not by quantum mechanics, as some physicists argue, but by chaos theory.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2013
• The drawing corner includes four pages covered in blue-ink sketches by Otto Rössler, a German biochemist who works on chaos theory.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2012
• Ironically, Al Gore was a big devotee of chaos theory and his defeat is an illustration of that idea.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Well, in chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the phenomenon where a small change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2018
• About a decade later, chaos theory started to catch on in scientific circles.
  — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 26 May 2019
• Like his genius, in the lively show-and-tell (which even science-phobes can grasp) probing of the theory of relativity in relation to quantum physics and chaos theory.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• The technique works so well, in fact, that Ott and some of the other Maryland researchers now intend to use chaos theory as a way to better understand the internal machinations of neural networks.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2018
• That was perfectly obvious long before the advent of chaos theory.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2011
• Fans all over social media have made the connection between the butterfly effect and Stormi’s name, pointing out chaos theory in the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can create a storm somewhere far away.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Precisely when and where these 5-mile-wide thermals of warm buoyant air will bubble up is chaos theory, beyond the ability of even high-resolution weather models to discern.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• Fans’ keen observations connected the butterfly motifs and Stormi’s name, pointing out chaos theory in the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can create a storm somewhere far away.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The Changing Value of Computation Today, chaos theory is part of the scientific repertoire.
  — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 26 May 2019
• The scientists were surprised by the results, and the experiment gave birth to the field of nonlinear science, which includes a wide array of scientific and mathematical areas of study, such as chaos theory.
  — Virginia Grant, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2021
• In his scholarly work, Dr. Katok ventured into areas that embraced some of the most intriguing aspects of modern mathematics, including what has been called chaos theory.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• Successful organizations are usually not built on the chaos theory and an unclear line of authority.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• The roots of today's chaos theory rest on a serendipitous discovery in the 1960s by mathematician-turned-meteorologist Edward Lorenz.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
• The butterfly effect, an appendage of chaos theory, suggests that a minor change in circumstances can lead to unpredictable, untrackable significant outcomes.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• More than many other abstruse areas of higher mathematics, chaos theory has captured the public imagination.
  — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2019
• Tricksters illustrate the capriciousness of nature, or perhaps even embrace chaos theory, which asserts that chaos and order are not necessarily in opposition.
  — James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
• The question vexed even one of the foremost mathematical minds of the 20th century, and even served as partial inspiration for a mathematical concept that's been applied everywhere from architecture to chaos theory.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2018
• The President is taking his political chaos theory beyond America's borders and racking up wins for his faithful political base.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 May 2018
• Edward Lorenz - Advanced the concept of modern chaos theory and important groundwork for modern numerical weather prediction.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021

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