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The revolutionary new way of understanding how things change. The book serves to explain a fraction of the phenomena to which Thom has suggested its application, the theory's reach will be extraordinary, the development of the ego, the origin of life, evolution, death, and language, among other things.....James Gorman. An intellectual revolution...Catastrophe theory affords novel and deep insights into the world in which we live...Ian Stewart. Catastrophe theory is one of many attempts that have been made to deduce the world by thought alone...an appealing dream for mathematicians, but a dream that cannot come true.....Zahler and Sussmann. An interesting read that you will want to take a real look at this one, excellent book for thought provoking.… (altro)
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Catastrophe theory is a controversial new way of thinking about change -- change in a course of events, change in an object's shape, change in a system's behavior, change in ideas themselves. Its name suggests disaster, and indeed the theory can be applied to literal catastrophes such as the collapse of a bridge or the downfall of an empire. But it also deals with changes as quiet as the dancing of sunlight on the bottom of a pool of water an as subtle as the transition from waking to sleep.
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"The old idea of Man, the microcosm, mirroring World, the macrocosm, retains all its force," Thom writes. For him, the question is not how our minds can conceive patterns applicable to the world, but how they could fail to do so, for we are in and of the world. Western mathematics, philosophy, and science alike began with those questioners on the shore of Asia Minor more than twenty-five hundred years ago. Perhaps more than anyone else alive today, René Thom is their rightful heir.
The revolutionary new way of understanding how things change. The book serves to explain a fraction of the phenomena to which Thom has suggested its application, the theory's reach will be extraordinary, the development of the ego, the origin of life, evolution, death, and language, among other things.....James Gorman. An intellectual revolution...Catastrophe theory affords novel and deep insights into the world in which we live...Ian Stewart. Catastrophe theory is one of many attempts that have been made to deduce the world by thought alone...an appealing dream for mathematicians, but a dream that cannot come true.....Zahler and Sussmann. An interesting read that you will want to take a real look at this one, excellent book for thought provoking.