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["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Lest I give an impression to the contrary: I don't
think I ever got beyond the Preface. Those of a
certain age may remember catastrophe theory as 
a five-year fad that offered hope of a new intellectual
synthesis, etc., etc., and was attractive in the sense
that a TV documentary or a _Scientific American_ article
or a reading of semi-popular accounts on a wet weekend
afternoon gave you an agreeable sense that it was dealing
with big, bold themes. Trouble was that you needed to 
trip through several graduate courses in topology to 
acquire real understanding, which rather limited the 
theory's chance of (intellectual) world domination. So
it joined the zoot suit and the hula hoop and Rubik's
cube in the limbo of strange ephemeral crazes. 

Back to my Mata problem.... 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Austin Nichols
 
> Dear Curious List Members,
> 
> The book Nick refers to is the wonderful Catastrophe Theory and Its
> Applications, by Tim Poston and Ian Stewart, 510 pages in the
> paperback edition from Dover Publications; New Ed edition, October 3,
> 1996, available from amazon.com for $16.75 and from amazon.co.uk for
> �10.94 and highly suitable as a holiday gift for the nerdiest of your
> friends.  Not for the faint of heart, however.
 
> > (Reminds me of a book on catastrophe theory
> > dedicated by the two authors to Christopher Zeeman,
> > "at whose feet we sit and on whose shoulders we stand". The
> > usual quip was that it needed two topologists to
> > think up such a contorted position.)

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