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2003 Japan Prize Winners Announced

Posted by michael on from the good-deeds-going-unpunished dept.

dpatil writes "The 2003 Japan Prize winners have been announced. James Yorke (who named the field of chaos theory) and Benoit Mandelbrot (father of fractals) will share the prize for "Creation of Universal Concepts in Complex Systems--Chaos and Fractals". Here is the citation. The Japan Prize is right up there after the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal. A good article on Yorke and his research team at the University of Maryland appeared in the Washington Post"

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  1. Outdated garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Chaos Theory? Fractals?

    What is this, 1985? Hey, I heard the Japan Prize for Best Album went to Duran Duran's Rio.

  2. This Explains the Latest StrongBad Email by HealYourChurchWebSit · · Score: 2, Funny


    Perhaps this explains the lastest "Japanimation" of our beloved hero, StrongBad. Kidding aside, aside from steering about the Moon, are there other pratical applications? I saw how chaos could be applied to the field of epidemiology ... does anyone know if the CDC or private/university interests are applying chaos to these fields?

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  3. Japan Prize? by dirvish · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Japan Prize is right up there after the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal.

    How come I have only hear of the Nobel Prize? Am I just dumb?

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  4. After The Nobel Prize ? by tealover · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really?

    That's like saying you made the playoffs but lost in the 1st round.

    You're still a loser.

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  5. Jurassic Park by tetro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wasn't the guy who made up chaos theory in Jurassic Park?

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