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...DISCUSSION of catastrophe theory's history, the writers trace the influence of 19th-century mathematician Henri Poincare and 20th-century biologist D'Arcy Thompson on the thought of Rene Thom, a leading differential topologist at the French Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies. Thom's vision of an underlying geometric order to natural processes led to his publication of Structural Stability and Morphogenesis in 1972, eight years after he had formulated the models which were to become the foundation of catastrophe theory...
...Thom Ramiga, a South African student, said yesterday. "At that point, students were really mad. People were given the impression that the reply from the administration might be favorable. Some students were even crying," he added...
...white businessmen are more forceful foes of the minimum wage than such black economists as U.C.L.A.'s Thom as Sowell and Temple University's Walter E. Williams. Sowell has concluded that the rise and spread of minimum-wage coverage is a catastrophe for young and unskilled blacks.. According to his studies, it is by far the major reason that the unemployment rate for 16-and 17-year-old black males is five times higher today than in 1952, when it actually was lower (8%) than comparable white teen-age unemployment. He finds it distressing that "people...
Drawing on such modern work as Rene Thom's mathematical catastrophe theory (to deal with discontinuous functions), as well as cybernetics and information theory, the authors almost produced a brilliant and illuminating work. Only their own assumptions held them back. It is difficult to be objective or fair when you alread "know" that our western rational consciousness is in some way "right," when you "know" that the individual is sacred and must not submit himself to anything larger, like the Godhead or transcendent oneness with the world, when you are committed to the material world of things and have consigned...
...Charlie Thom, who was sitting in a golf cart next to Easterly, suddenly learned forward and with a clear County Angus brogue said, "that's r-r-right...