From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 2 13:13:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29295 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.tol.it (mail.tin.it [194.243.154.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29281 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@tin.it) Received: from dumbwinter.ecomotor.it (a-bu3-8.tin.it [212.216.1.135]) by mail.tol.it (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA20161 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 22:12:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 2441 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jul 1998 20:09:57 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 22:09:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni X-Sender: molter@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Strange attractors and fractals (was: A Little Cancer Patient need Your Attention) In-Reply-To: <199807021915.MAA25347@usr06.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > There is an engineering soloution to this engineering problem, but > no one in authority over the organizational architecture is willing > to countenance it; it involves loss of individual power, which is > antithetical to the strange attractors which formed the organization ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hehehe, Dynamic Systems Theory ... > in the first place. > > This can all be modelled mathematically; the models are easy to > understand with no more than a 4th year undergraduate understanding > of partial differential equations (ie: "math 452"). You don't need > an understanding of games theory (though if you had one, the > consequences of the math would be obvious to you). Ok, Terry, so let's do some differential equations ;-))) Marco --- Il mondo e' bello perche' e' Bacio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message