butterfly effect

idea that small causes can have large effects in complex or nonlinear dynamic systems
Intangible concept Q187536
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butterfly effect

Summary

butterfly effect is a concept[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,797 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • butterfly effect's image is recorded as Lorentz2.png[3].
  • butterfly effect's instance of is recorded as concept[4].
  • butterfly is named after butterfly effect[5].
  • butterfly effect's part of is recorded as chaos theory[6].
  • butterfly effect's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/019qd[7].
  • butterfly effect's facet of is recorded as chaos theory[8].
  • butterfly effect's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[9].
  • butterfly effect's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/butterfly-effect[10].
  • butterfly effect's BBC Things ID is recorded as e8f67f66-14d7-4007-92fe-c2e62273e166[11].
  • butterfly effect's different from is recorded as Butterfly effect[12].
  • butterfly effect's different from is recorded as Efecto mariposa[13].
  • butterfly effect's different from is recorded as effet papillon[14].
  • butterfly effect's MathWorld ID is recorded as ButterflyEffect[15].
  • butterfly effect's Quora topic ID is recorded as Butterfly-Effect[16].
  • butterfly effect's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19583154[17].
  • butterfly effect's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["PhysicalEffect", "ButterflyEffect"][18].
  • butterfly effect's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].
  • butterfly effect's Larousse ID is recorded as images/Edward_Lorenz_leffet_papillon/1003235[20].
  • butterfly effect's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[21].
  • butterfly effect's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.science:Эффект_бабочки[22].
  • butterfly effect's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 118979974[23].
  • butterfly effect's Semantic Scholar topic ID is recorded as 208284[24].
  • butterfly effect's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as バタフライ効果[25].
  • butterfly effect's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C118979974[26].
  • butterfly effect's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/butterfly-effect[27].

Why It Matters

butterfly effect ranks in the top 2% of concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,797 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . 10K, la década robada. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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