René Thom
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
René Frédéric Thom (1923 – 2002) was a French mathematician. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work as founder of catastrophe theory (later developed by Erik Christopher Zeeman).
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "René Thom" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
