Ten artists will join forces on Friday at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre for the opening of their group exhibition entitled The Presence of Absence, or the
Catastrophe Theory.
In addition, many experts and scholars have analyzed and summarized the coal and gas outburst mechanism based on the
catastrophe theory, which greatly promoted the theoretical research process of coal and gas outburst accidents.
Arnold,
Catastrophe Theory, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1992.
Catastrophe theory was first put forward by the French scholar Rene Thom in 1972, and the application foundation of
catastrophe theory, singularity theory and topology, was given in his book "Structural Stability and Morphogenesis"--Based on the mutation type of the critical points of potential functions, it explores the inherent mechanism of the discontinuous sudden change of potential function at different critical points by topological method.
The author has organized the main body of his text in fourteen chapters devoted to cellular automata and spatial diffusion models, artificial neural networks, ant colony optimization, organization and organizational theory, self-organization, intelligence principles, agent-based modeling,
catastrophe theory and methods, fish and particle swarm optimization, and many other related subjects.
In fact, in the letter to the mathematician and creator of
catastrophe theory Rene Thom that appears as the second paper in the volume, Toussaint himself underlines certain parallelisms between some of the mathematician's proposals and his linguistic model.
As a mathematical model characterized by dialectic and simple construction,
catastrophe theory (CT) generally applies to systems that may respond to continuous changes in control variables through a discontinuous change from one equilibrium state to another.
Another avenue would be to explore if Thom's "
catastrophe theory" [17] (or other more general theories of bifurcation) applied to particle physics could spontaneously reproduce multiple generations, as it is known to include stable/unstable multiple solutions.