catastrophe theory

"So I would not throw the catastrophe theory overboard quite yet."

Application of catastrophe theory in science has been characterized as a floating model.

There has been a revival of catastrophe theory, a return to doctrines over 200 years old, to explain extinctions.

It wasn't until we somehow stumbled on to talking about catastrophe theory that we hit common ground.

So their case against climate catastrophe theory, although consistent with their views about property, is independent of it.

Thom (1974), founder of the "catastrophe theory" acknowledged what he owed to this work.

Thom built on this, and his own earlier work, to create a catastrophe theory supposed to account for discontinuous change in nature.

Previous candidates included cybernetics, information theory, catastrophe theory and, of course, chaos.

He is well known for his popular expositions of mathematics and his contributions to catastrophe theory.

Does anyone remember cybernetics or catastrophe theory?

Such systems generally exhibit sudden jumps from one equilibrium state to another (sometimes amenable to analysis using catastrophe theory).

Today, Catastrophe Theory is all but forgotten.

Fold bifurcations and the cusp geometry are by far the most important practical consequences of catastrophe theory.

Catastrophe Theory - Predict and avoid personal disasters.

This love was a new pattern, a new Catastrophe Theory and she was happy in its embrace.

Various reasons for this hypothetical bottleneck have been postulated, one being the Toba catastrophe theory.

"There is an almost forgotten branch of mathematics, called Catastrophe Theory, which could make meteorology a really precise science.

Catastrophe Theory, 3rd ed.

He was especially active encouraging the application of mathematics, and catastrophe theory in particular, to biology and behavioural sciences.

Other critics say that complexity is no different from a number of other scientific fads like chaos, cybernetics and catastrophe theories.

According to the Toba catastrophe theory, the event may have reduced human populations to only a few tens of thousands of individuals.

They regard themselves as having separate grounds (to do with scientific methodology) for regarding climate catastrophe theory as a pseudo-science.

For other meanings of the word catastrophe, including catastrophe theory in mathematics, see catastrophe (disambiguation).

Catastrophe theory has been applied by its enthusiasts to everything from stock market crashes to the aggressive behavior of pumpkinseed sunfish.

Catastrophe Theory for Scientists and Engineers.