[HN Gopher] The Charms of Catastrophe (1978)
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       The Charms of Catastrophe (1978)
        
       Author : mitchbob
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2024-11-07 21:33 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | mitchbob wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/UZsKg
        
         | drcwpl wrote:
         | This is fabulous, now I have a lot of reading, thanks for
         | sharing
        
       | pvg wrote:
       | The 'catastrophe machine' mentioned:
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       | https://www.geneva.edu/dept/chemistry-math-physics/physics-r...
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       | Very easy to throw together or simulate.
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | Catastrophe theory developed a bad reputation pretty quickly,
       | today there are many retrospectives of how various fields in the
       | social sciences lost interest
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       | https://is.muni.cz/el/sci/jaro2018/M6201/um/48281991/RosserC...
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       | When i was studying physics in the 1990s with the famous
       | conspiracy (more so than string) theorist Ron Maimon we talked
       | about it and he said it was a pale shadow of the renormalization
       | group approach to phase transitions that was developed just a
       | little bit earlier.
        
       | madcaptenor wrote:
       | Author is Martin Gardner - that might entice some people to click
       | through.
        
       | drcwpl wrote:
       | It is also worth reading Chaos Theory and the story of the
       | scientists https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-
       | to-chaos...
        
       | euroderf wrote:
       | Wouldn't CT give Hari Seldon a way to predict discontinuous
       | (revolutionary) political change ?
        
       | Jun8 wrote:
       | Interesting nugget: the Swallowtail Catastrophe
       | (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SwallowtailCatastrophe.html), one
       | of the seven possible, was named by the blind French topologist
       | Bernard Morin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Morin).
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       | It was the topic of Salvador Dali's last work
       | (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swallow%27s_Tail)
        
         | drcwpl wrote:
         | The Swallowtail catastrophe is a beautiful work of art and
         | theorem
        
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