queries

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Mon Mar 12 16:41:29 PST 2001



> > >Probably appropriated from phase space diagrams in chaos theory.
> > Networks are
> > >pretty commonly modeled in terms of topologies and spaces.
> >
> > Which may have been appropriated from the phase space diagrams of
> > geology.
>
> Phase space diagrams can be found in just about all the physical sciences
> where it is useful to plot real dimensions vs. imaginary dimensions, e.g.
> Ohm's Law, Quantum Electrodynamics, etc.
>
>
> Matt

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Didn't their usage become industrialized by Willard Gibbs [or did he get it from CS Pierce's dad?] or are they much older than that?

Ian



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