Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Analysis of Observational Data: The Robusiness of Mathematical Models in the Presence of Bias--Sonjz McKinlay, mathematician, Agassiz House...
GOVERNMENT REGULATION: I don't want to preside over a $10,000 Omni. But I don't see anything that's going to deter [the regulators] from making their appointed rounds. The way things are-and you don't have to be a mathematician to take $5,000 [roughly the present price of the Omni] and compound it for five years at 10% inflation rates and then add on all these goodies-it could be [a $10,000 car]. HIS GOALS: I really believe that if we can turn this company around, then I will have...
...laugh because she has arrived. She is no longer merely the precocious daughter of fabled Mathematician John von Neumann, or just the Radcliffe summa who became the first of several modern women to break into high economic policymaking in Washington. A happy wife and mother of two, Whitman, 43, frames corporate policy as a director of Westinghouse, Procter & Gamble and the Manufacturers Hanover bank, conducts a weekly TV economics program, teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and travels everywhere advising officials on the global economy. Says Whitman: "I've advanced from a freak to a role model so fast...
...Mathematician William M. Raike of the U.S. Navy's Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and three associates from Seattle invented a gadget they call a "phasorphone." It scrambles voices on both ends of a CB radio or phone conversation and costs about $100, far less than similar devices already on the market...