NP: Tom Lehrer

[Ian Livingston]

Yes, Lorenz's efforts at long-range weather forecasting were earlier, and
it was because of the models developed at UCSC in the 80s that those ideas
re-emerged under what then became known as chaos theory. You could go back
to the Greeks if you want, they were more comfortable with chaos than our
contemporary society. Or even to Get Smart, if that pleases you more.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>wrote:

> >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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