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The doomsday argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based on an estimation of the number of humans born to date. The doomsday argument was originally proposed by the astrophysicist Brandon Carter in 1983, [1] leading to the initial name of the Carter ...
Carter's efforts as a private citizen helped to raise Americans' perception of him, Strong said. Historians and the public generally rate his presidential tenure as "middling" at best.
But Carter's theory was a sort of Bizarro World Friedmanism where prices spiraled as a result of acquisitiveness and lack of public spirit. For the 39th president, inflation was always and ...
Catastrophe theory studies dynamical systems that describe the evolution [5] of a state variable over time : ˙ = = (,) In the above equation, is referred to as the potential function, and is often a vector or a scalar which parameterise the potential function.
In November 1979, a number of U.S. hostages were captured in Iran during the Iranian Revolution.The Iran hostage crisis continued into 1980; as the November 1980 presidential election approached, there were concerns in the Republican Party that a resolution of the crisis could constitute an "October surprise" which might give incumbent Jimmy Carter enough of an electoral boost to be re-elected ...
In recent years, President Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency has been reevaluated, and a more balanced view of his time in office has emerged. In recent years, President Jimmy Carter’s one ...
Carter noted that the energy crisis was likely to progressively worsen and could result in a national catastrophe. He cited the effort was the "moral equivalent of war". He cited historical energy changes from wood to coal then oil. He foresaw the renewed use of coal and solar power. Our consumption of oil would keep going up every year.
Jimmy Carter, who served a single full presidential term without the chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, nonetheless left behind an incomparable judicial legacy.