| 单词 | catastrophe theory |
| 释义 | catastrophe theory A branch of mathematics dealing with the sudden emergence of discontinuities, in contrast to calculus, which is concerned with continuous quantities. Catastrophe theory originated in topology in work by the French mathematician René Thom (1923– ) and was developed by Thom and the Russian mathematician Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (1937– ). There are physical applications of catastrophe theory in optics and in systems involving complexity, including biological systems |
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