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In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series which discipline does Hari Seldon develop to help predict the future based on mathematical probabilities?

Question #149643. Asked by BigTriviaDawg.
Last updated Aug 14 2023.
Originally posted Aug 14 2023 8:02 PM.

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The discipline is called "Psychohistory".
Psychohistory is a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people, such as the Galactic Empire. It was first introduced in the four short stories (1942-1944) which would later be collected as the 1951 novel "Foundation."
link https://wiki2.org/en/Psychohistory_(fictional)+Newton
Response last updated by psnz on Aug 14 2023.
Aug 14 2023, 8:05 PM
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