Mathematician:Warwick Tucker/Mistake

Source Work

2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.):

chaos

Mistake

In $2002$ the Swedish mathematician Warwick Tucker showed that [the Lorenz attractor] is a strange attractor.

Correction

Warwick Tucker is not Swedish, he is Australian.

The confusion arises from the fact that he obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 at Uppsala University.

Sources

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