NP: Tom Lehrer

[Monte Davis]

>early 80s...some of the first models of chaos theory

The Lorenz "butterfly effect" runs in weather modeling were 1961, and
Manelbrot's work on non-normally-distributed cotton prices, Nile floods
etc. began about the same time... not to go back to Poincare in the 1880s
(non-periodic dynamics in the solar system).;


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Another Santa Cruz boy. It was easy to be reclusive in the woods north of
> SC in the 70s. Pynchon hung out thereabouts, too. Gregory Bateson was there
> at the time, too. Lived down the hill from us. It was also about then, a
> few years later, maybe early 80s, that some of the first models of chaos
> theory began to take shape in a back room at the university. It was a
> vibrant community then. Lehrer was a favorite listen around our house. My
> dad had an early 78 rpm from the Harvard Lampoon Days, featuring such
> goldies as "Be Prepared," "The Old Dope Peddler," "Lobachevsky," and
> "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park."
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:54 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Another reclusive genius:
>>
>> http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer
>>
>> Great article, with song links.
>>
>> Laura
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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