Thursday 13 January 2011

Mathematical stability

The above plot was generated by Google ngrams which, based on all documents in Google Books, calculates the relative usage of a word or sequence of words. Some subjects gain, and subsequently loose popularity, while others seem more stable.

2 comments:

David Basanta said...

Of course there's also Complexity theory...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=systems+biology,complexity+theory,+bioinformatics&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Philip said...

Forgot about that one. Then there's always 'fractals'...