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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: What is catastrophe theory?
- Message-ID: <97289@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 15:15:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.180552.14797@progress.com> <1992Nov12.034022.3378@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1992Nov12.054448.26967@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: gokhman@ring05.cs.utsa.EDU (Dmitry Gokhman)
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- In article <1992Nov12.054448.26967@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, gokhman@ring05 (Dmitry Gokhman) writes:
- >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.
-
- The controversy came because the models were frequently applied with
- no evidence regarding any underlying dynamical systems. This is in
- contrast to good chunks of the chaos fad, where the dynamics is often
- explicit.
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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