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Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (died 1998)
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect.
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Mary Cartwright was born in 1900. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1900 | 2026 |
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| Average income | $438 | $67,500 |
| Postage stamp | $0.02 | $0.73 |
| Population | 76.2M | 341 million |
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