A reality stranger than fiction

[Monte Davis]

Although some of the precursor math for catastrophe theory was being done in
the 1950s and early 1960s, the name postdates the writing of V. by at least
five years, and any awareness of it beyond a very small circle of
mathematicians by at least ten. 
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