Other critics say that complexity is no different from a number of other scientific fads like chaos, cybernetics and catastrophe theories.
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While Thom's influence in mathematics has become deeply rooted, catastrophe theory did not live up to its promise of useful predictions.
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Catastrophe theory was based on analyses of the topology, or surface structure, of abstract mathematical shapes endowed with " cusps ."
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When is continuous, and has a degenerate saddle point, is a very rich problem, whose solution heavily relies on the catastrophe theory.
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Human genetic diversity is highly constrained due to some historical population bottlenecks relatively recently : Toba catastrophe theory is one of them.
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Rene Thom, Fields Medal winner for catastrophe theory, ventured into semiotics, and here's a great overview pdf of Thom's theory of meaning.
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An explanation for their extinction ( or small genetic imprint ) may be the Toba catastrophe theory ( 74, 000 years ago ).
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According to the Toba catastrophe theory there was a bottleneck of human population, with numbers reaching as low as around 10, 000 individuals.
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Salvador Dal?s last painting, " The Swallow's Tail " ( 1983 ), was part of a series inspired by Ren?Thom's catastrophe theory.
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The Hessian matrix plays an important role in Morse theory and catastrophe theory, because its kernel and eigenvalues allow classification of the critical points.
