Starting with Poincaré's work on celestial mechanics, that notion of predictability had

been challenged. But the field has rapidly accelerated in the last half century with what
Edward Lorenz thought was a computation error when the computer generated results
showed a totally unexpected outcome. Since then, numerical computation has led to the
discovery of an entirely new field of science, deterministic chaos, often considered a glory
of computational science. The field of chaos covers everything from physical systems to
biological ones, from surprisingly simple models