Word: suddent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of Newton and Leibniz, founders of the calculus three centuries ago, mathematical models in science have been concerned with the regular rotation of planets, the gradual increase in pressure of a gas being heated and the continuously-changing velocity of a falling object. But what about the suddent collapse of a beam, abrupt transition from water to ice or bursting of a bubble? Because they are discontinuous, catastrophists say, these phenomena have remained outside the scope of mathematical inquiry--until...
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