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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.
Emperor Cleon I wants to appoint Hari Seldon as the First Minister of the Galactic Empire. Powerful Trantor High Council member Betan Lamurk opposes the independent Seldon's appointment. Seldon himself is reluctant to accept the position because of its time constraints pulling him away from the psychohistory project.
By means of psychohistory, Seldon has discovered the decline and eventual fall of the Galactic Empire, angering its rulers, the Commission of Public Safety. Seldon defends his beliefs, and the Commission, not wanting to make Seldon a martyr, offers him exile to a remote world, Terminus.
The murder of the woman found in the cottage, Sarah Libbey Greenhalgh, 48, rocked the usually serene town in the midst of horse country, as well as her co-workers at The Winchester Star, where she ...
It’s a small world, after all. Shauhin Davari was announced as one of the 18 people competing on “Survivor 48,” premiering Feb. 26, by CBS on Wednesday. In 2016, Papini disappeared for 22 ...
Gaal Dornick is a fictional character in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.Introduced in Foundation (1951), he is a gifted young mathematician from a remote world who becomes embroiled in the conflict surrounding famed mathematician and psychologist Hari Seldon and his predictive science of psychohistory.
Johann Hari still remembers the strange sensation he felt two days after he first injected himself with Ozempic.. A doctor prescribed the drug for weight loss — a famous side effect of the Type ...
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).