home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!ringer!ring05!gokhman
- From: gokhman@ring05.cs.utsa.EDU (Dmitry Gokhman)
- Subject: Re: What is catastrophe theory?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.054448.26967@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ring05
- Reply-To: gokhman@ring05.cs.utsa.EDU (Dmitry Gokhman)
- Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <1992Nov11.180552.14797@progress.com> <1992Nov12.034022.3378@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Distribution: utsa
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:44:48 GMT
- Lines: 25
-
- In article <1992Nov12.034022.3378@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
- > Most well-equipped academic libraries should have E.C. Zeeman's
- > "Catastrophe Theory". Parts of it are very readable, others less so.
- > Be careful of some of the outrageous claims made in that book for
- > catastrophe theory however. Catastrophes are interesting things, but
- > C.T. has not turned out to be the mathematical "theory of everything"
- > that Zeeman and Thom sometimes seem to think it should be.
- > There is also a very recent book (by Arnol'd?). It claims to be
- > about the noncontroversial parts of C.T. Since I haven't read it, I
- > can't comment further on its suitability for an interested layman.
- >
- > Marc R. Roussel
- > mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-
- It's not a theory of everything, it's a theory of dynamical systems
- producing discontinuous results from continuous input.
- It is not at all clear to me what the so-called controversy is all
- about. The theorems come with proofs. Somebody please enlighten
- me.
- --
- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
- - Mr. Gumby * \oo7 Dmitry Gokhman -> gokhman@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
- says: `/v/-*
- MY BRAIN HURTS J L YOUR AD HERE!
- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-