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Hari Seldon is a fictional character in the Foundation series of novels by Isaac Asimov. In his capacity as mathematics professor at Streeling University on the planet Trantor , Seldon develops psychohistory , an algorithmic science that allows him to predict the future in probabilistic terms.
Hari Seldon, mathematician who develops psychohistory; Gaal Dornick, mathematician and Seldon's biographer; Jerril, an agent of the Commission of Public Safety who watches Gaal Dornick; Linge Chen, chief commissioner of public safety, and judge of Seldon's trial; Lors Avakim, the lawyer appointed to defend Gaal Dornick
Raych Seldon is a street urchin in the slums of Billibotton whom Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili meet as they traverse Trantor in Prelude to Foundation. [ 10 ] : 214–215 [ 17 ] In Forward the Foundation , Seldon determines that populist Jo-Jo Joranum is scheming to replace Eto Demerzel as Cleon I's First Minister and then overthrow the emperor.
In Forward the Foundation, Hari Seldon refers to a 20-thousand-year-old story of "a young woman that could communicate with an entire planet that circled a sun named Nemesis", a reference to Nemesis. In Nemesis, the main colony is one of the Fifty Settlements, a collection of orbital colonies that form a state.
Barr is familiar with Hari Seldon's psychohistory and through it is confident of the Foundation's inevitable victory, an assertion Riose repeatedly disputes. Riose captures and interrogates Lathan Devers, a Foundation trader who reveals in private to Barr that he allowed himself to be taken in order to disrupt Riose's operation from the inside.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...there was a mathematician named Hari Seldon who predicted the fall of the Galactic Empire, kicking off a centuries-long war between rebels and the ...
The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.First published as a series of short stories and novellas in 1942–50, and subsequently in three books in 1951–53, for nearly thirty years the series was widely known as The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953).
Alfred Enoch as Raych Foss (seasons 1–2), the adopted son of Hari Seldon; Daniel MacPherson as Hugo Crast (seasons 1–2), an interplanetary trader from Thespis who became Salvor Hardin's lover; Clarke Peters as Abbas Hardin (season 1), a Seldon follower, the first Warden and first Mayor of Terminus, and surrogate father of Salvor Hardin