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3 unusual facts about Ivar Ekeland


Ivar Ekeland

Ekeland's exposition provided mathematical inspiration to Michael Crichton's discussion of chaos in Jurassic Park.

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Ekeland's Mathematics and the unexpected and James Gleick's chaos theory in the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.

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Through these writings, Ekeland had an influence on Jurassic Park, on both the novel and film.



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