Comment by delld16
4 hours ago
A fascinating potential link between the two famous popular books on early computing and mathematics, 'Hackers', and 'Chaos' by James Gleick (two books that shaped my teenage years fwiw).
Is the link to Edward Lorenz just a guess based on the name and subject matter of the project given in the Hackers extract? Or do you have information from some other source that Margaret Hamilton wrote code for Lorenz?
Check out starting on page 10: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
Edit; It looks like I misremembered the machine. Seems like it was the PDP 1.
It's fascinating she was at the intersection of so many foundational points.
Thanks! Truth really is stranger than fiction.
And it seems like she reflected on it quite light-heartedly.