R.I.P. Ed Lorenz, "father of chaos theory"
 

[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1632944820080417?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews]Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dead at 90[/url]

Perhaps the best example ever of floating-point roundoff errors being more than a mere nuisance.

Always much too classy and humble to ever appear in the same metaphorical room with pompous trendy neologisms such as "chaotician."

As far as the appellation "father of chaos theory", some obscure folks with names like Poincaré and Kolmogorov might hem and haw just a bit at that - let's split the difference and use "father of numerical chaos theory".