Crocheting the Chaos

Mathematician turns chaos into crochet:

"Crochet is helping researchers to better understand mathematical equations designed to make sense of chaotic weather patterns.

Dr Hinke Osinga, a mathematician from the University of Bristol, will discuss her work at the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics meeting in Fremantle this week.

Osinga is working on the Lorenz equations, which are used to model the difficult-to-predict system we know as the weather.

In these equations, small changes in initial conditions have a big effect on the long-term behaviour of the system."