Jared has worked quite hard this week, and I thought it would be nice for him to learn a bit about chaos theory. He has expressed an interest in this subject in the past, and I when I asked him to look up a documentary he found an excellent one produced by the BBC. The first part of the documentary covered the early history of chaos theory, primarily championed by Henri Poincare in France and Aleksandr Lyapunov in Russia (although it was not known by that name yet). The former studied the effect of small-scale perturbations in the initial conditions of orbiting bodies (such as the planets around the Sun), while the latter studied the chaotic behavior of gases and fluids.