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RIP, Bob Bussard
On Oct 20, 1:47 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Scott Hedrick wrote: Asimov came up with Chaos Theory decades before it was described when Arkady Darell went blundering through the universe and unintentionally (at least as far as she knew) conquered The Mule, and saved humanity. Pat When you say 'Chaos Theory' , you mean classical Chaos Theory as discovered by Henri Poincaré at the end of the 19th century? (Mathematicians working on non linear problems knew of Chaos Theory ever since Poincaré, its just that it did not get popularized until the last 25 or 30 years.) I am sure Asimov was aware of Poincaré. |
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