Appendix: Lorenz attractor
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The Lorenz attractor is a famous example of a dynamic system with chaotic behaviour. That means that the behaviour of this system has a particular high sensitivity to input parameters and initial conditions. The system consists of three coupled differential equations:
\[\partial_t x = \sigma (y - z),\] \[\partial_t y = x (\rho - z) - y,\] \[\partial_t z = xy - \beta z,\]
where \(x, y, z\) is the configuration space and \(\sigma, \rho\) and \(\beta\) are parameters.