Mathematics
- Edward Norton Lorenz, (1917–2008), American mathematician, meteorologist, and MIT professor
- Lorenz system, a system of equations notable for having chaotic solutions under certain conditions which are known as the Lorenz attractor
- Max O. Lorenz, (1880–1962), an American economist
- Lorenz curve, an income distribution curve
- Ludvig Lorenz, (1829–1891), a Danish mathematician and physicist
- Lorenz gauge condition, a general method of calculation of time-dependent electromagnetic fields in which retarded potentials are introduced
- Lorenz cipher, a German cryptography machine, named after the company of the German engineer Carl Lorenz
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“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale;
Resolve, by sines and tangents straight,
If bread and butter wanted weight;
And wisely tell what hour o’ th’ day
The clock doth strike, by algebra.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)