The "'Toba catastrophe theory "'holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter of 6 10 years and possibly a 1, 000-year-long cooling episode.
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However, examined in a larger parameter space, catastrophe theory reveals that such bifurcation points tend to occur as part of well-defined qualitative geometrical structures.
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To do so, their specifications ranged from Kalman filtering, exponential filtering, nonparametric statistical methods, spectral and cross-spectral analyses and sequential learning, to cusp catastrophe theory.
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While Ren?Thom is most known to the public for his development of catastrophe theory between 1968 and 1972, his earlier work was on differential topology.
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Here, the catastrophe theory replaces the Morse lemma, valid only in the non-degenerate case, to transform the function into one of the multitude of canonical representations.
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He is known for work in nonlinear economic dynamics, including applications in economics of catastrophe theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory ( complex dynamics, complexity economics ).
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It is then revealed by Anderson that he took advantage of McKendrick's " Catastrophe Theory " by placing Hollar's thesis in McKendrick's bag whilst he was unconscious.
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In the 1970s, Rene Thom, a French mathematician, developed an approach called Catastrophe Theory, which, for a time, enjoyed a considerable vogue among physicists, biologists and even sociologists.
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On his return to Warwick, he taught an undergraduate course in Catastrophe Theory which became immensely popular with students; his lectures generally were " standing room only ".
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For those too sophisticated to believe the world will come to an end just because warrantees tend to expire when odometers accumulate zeros, Y2K offers an alternative catastrophe theory.
