Navigating Past the Chaos of the Radiation Oncology 2021 Match

Parisian mathematician Jules Henri Poincare is credited with identifying fundamental concepts that established chaos theory, which describes dynamic systems wherein small differences in initial conditions can lead to widely diverging outcomes. The phenomenon is often called the “butterfly effect,” conjuring an image of an insect in China flapping its wings, possibly triggering a cascade of meteorologic events that ultimately cause a tornado in...