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Asimov's Foundation and psychohistory supply Jiang's long-term ambition: to build intellectual foundations for mathematically modeling the past and present in order to predict the future.
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Asimov's Foundation and psychohistory supply Jiang's long-term ambition: to build intellectual foundations for mathematically modeling the past and present in order to predict the future.
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He says Asimov's Foundation imagines mathematical mapping of human behavior across immense time scales in order to manipulate events toward a better future.
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"Specifically, it's given me an opportunity to think about the possibilities of history. And over the course of teaching this course, I've decided that..."
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"...lot of books. And one of my favorite series was the Foundation series. And in it, Isaac Asimov proposed the idea of psychohistory, which..."
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"...but you can have a look at it. And in the Foundation books, he introduces the idea of psychohistory. And so, this book is..."
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