![]() ![]() At the barest minimum, Chaos Theory is a field of mathematics that attempts to understand the complexity of reality. It’s important to map out how Asimov constructs his science fiction worlds. ![]() Asimov’s scientific and cultural attitude towards the potential decline and destruction of humans will greatly contribute to his protagonist’s character development arc, and how he perceives reality. In this essay I will try to analyze Sheldon’s character and Motivations, and how they came to inspire professor Kouzuki Yuuko‘s rational and thought process in Muv-Luv, in addition to addressing how Asimov tackled the larger stakes and the specific question of how humankind comes to terms with the possibility of its imminent demise as a species. It uses a statistical approach to foretell the course of great social and economic currents, by including considerations of items such as the known probability of imperial assassination and economic depressions, and at the center of it all was the bright mathematician, Hari Sheldon. Psychohistory is a fictional science in Issac 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. It does not make pretenses towards claiming overarching, global truth, however, it does allow a linear, rational method of elimination to get closer to the truth. It’s not the only path to truth, but offers a way of determining the false. ![]() The author called science fiction as “the only literature of relevant ideas”, since its the only literature that is, at its best, firmly based on scientific thoughts. Issac Asimov’s “ Foundation Novels” were a primary inspiration source for building the world of Muv-Luv. ![]()
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