UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, April 2003

Lewis Fry Richardson, Chronology

• 1881, born (UK)
• 1900-03, King's College, Cambridge
• 1903-13, various physics jobs
• 1913-16, Meteorological Office, accurate prediction
• 1916-19, WW1, Friend's Ambulance unit with 16th French Inf. Div.
• 1919-20, Meteorological Office, accurate prediction
• 1920-40, teaching physics
• 1940, retired to focus on arms race models, politicometrics
• 1953, died
• 1960, books published

Math of War, Chronology

• 1919, Richardson sent his first arms race paper to the copyright office
• 1935, first and second papers publ'd in Nature
• 1935, third paper publ'd in Nature
• 1939, summary paper publ'd in Brit. J. Psych.
• 1941, fresh start, series of papers published regularly
• 1947, 1950, books written, not published until 1960
• 1947, Rashevsky's first book on mathematical sociology
• 1957, Rapoport's review appeared
• 1960, Richardson's books appeared
• 1975, Isnard and Zeeman's work published, modern math of war begins
• 1984, Kadyrov aka Kushelman, double cusp model