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experienced, seek and think | know about, Thom was not after the logical proofs of geometry but rather viewed mathematical theorem and proof work as activity derived from intuitive experience with geometric relations as the thought forms that represented rea/ Reality. Though a Fi...

…. Gradually changing forces leading to sudden changes in an energy-equivalent result are found in most rigorous form in Rene’ Thom’s singularity-bifurcation-catastrophe theory applied to rational mechanics and geometric optics. Here the existence of already solvable computational...

Rene Thom. His mathematical pallet was breathtakingly broad

Aristotelian Physics and Catastrophe Theory. Rene Thom.

flows, which led to examples of some of his universal singularities that he claimed could be found in all real physical, biological and psychological systems. For some examples: One of his archetypal singularities was a boundary at x = 0 such that the flow couldn’t spread from wh...

…circahoralian (ultradian) intracellular rhythms (Brodski, 1998). Reconstructions of Time Series as Orbital Geometries Rene Thom (1972), extending the ideas of Poincaré and D’Arcy Thompson (1942), argued that experimentally useful, intuitive connections between the qualities of...

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were behaving linearly and smoothly whereas within this region we observe global and dramatic changes via a forced discontinuity in what Thom called a catastrophe and others use related words such as bifurcation or phase transition. The transitions from painful fatigue to running...

It was upon Thom’s recommendation, that | spent the year in the Mathematics Institute in Warwick, England. Using the Math House #2 s home base, | made many trips to Oxford University and a few to Cambridge. It was in these places that | learned first hand that belief in the Resur...

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Thom found equivalence relations between

…Kushner, Jewish Lights, Woodstock, Vermont. 1998. Semiophysics: A Sketch, Aristotelian Physics and Catastrophe Theory. Rene Thom. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. 1990. Mere Christianity. C-S. Lewis. MacMillan, N.Y. 1952. Sacred Geometry. Miranda Lundy. Walker, N.Y. 1998. Fractal...

…athematicians, A.N. Kolmogorov (1957), Sinai (1959) and V.I. Arnold (Arnold and Avez, 1968), the French mathematicians, Rene Thom (1972) and David Ruelle (1978) and the U.C. Berkeley mathematicians, Steve Smale (1967) and his student, Rufus Bowen (1975), and their associates who...

…Y, 1985 The Topological Picture Book, George K. Francis, Springer-Verlag, NY 1988 Mathematical Models of Morphogenesis, Rene Thom, Wiley, NY 1983 Catastrophe Theory, Selected Papers, 1972-1977, Christopher Zeeman, Addison- Wesley Reading, MA 1977 63 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013563

… of well-defined mathematical objects to metaphoric elements of more general nonverbal intuition has a long tradition. Rene Thom’s 1990 book, 112 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013612