\u00abPrefiero el campo de la matem\u00e1tica en el que no se sabe muy bien qu\u00e9 se hace\u00bb, en el que las fronteras son m\u00f3viles y abiertas, y en el que hay una zona del conocimiento \u00aben el que a\u00fan se puede experimentar maravillas\u00bb: as\u00ed escribe Ren\u00e9 Thom, quien recibi\u00f3 en 1958 la Medalla Fields (equivalente al Premio Nobel) y que, en los a\u00f1os setenta, desafi\u00f3 en su propio terreno a f\u00edsicos y bi\u00f3logos, a economistas y ling\u00fcistas; proponiendo, con su ya c\u00e9lebre \u00abteor\u00eda de las cat\u00e1strofes\u00bb, una nueva manera de considerar todas las transformaciones que se producen de un modo brusco, imprevisto, dram\u00e1tico.En esta larga entrevista, en la que se habla de matem\u00e1tica y embriolog\u00eda, de ling\u00fc\u00edstica y de antropolog\u00eda e historia, Ren\u00e9 Thom no s\u00f3lo consigue aclarar el sentido profundo de las analog\u00edas (\u00abpar\u00e1bolas\u00bb) que explican algunos de los m\u00e1s enigm\u00e1ticos y fascinantes fen\u00f3menos discontinuos (o \u00abcat\u00e1strofes\u00bb) \u2014desde la diferenciaci\u00f3n en el desarrollo embrional hasta las grandes crisis pol\u00edtico-sociales\u2014, sino que contesta punto por punto a cr\u00edticos y opositores. Cr\u00edtico para con los entusiasmos demasiado f\u00e1ciles con respecto al \u00abprogreso\u00bb cient\u00edfico y tecnol\u00f3gico, observador atento de los distintos sistemas de investigaci\u00f3n, estudioso sensible a los complicados lazos entre sociedad y ciencia, Ren\u00e9 Thom no hace aqu\u00ed sino trazar una imagen de la ciencia misma que, al entrar en m\u00e1s de una ocasi\u00f3n en conflicto con las m\u00e1s afianzadas creencias de nuestro tiempo, consigue revivir, en el contexto de instrumentos intelectuales modern\u00edsimos, la concreci\u00f3n, tan querida por el fil\u00f3sofo griego Her\u00e1clito, de la g\u00e9nesis de las formas a trav\u00e9s del conflicto.Ren\u00e9 Thom naci\u00f3 en Montb\u00e9liard, Francia, en 1923. Desde 1953 es profesor permanente en el Institut des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques de Bures-sur-Yvette. Su ya c\u00e9lebre tratado, Stabilit\u00e9 structurelle el morphog\u00e9n\u00e9se (1972) ha pasado a ser el punto de referencia de todo un nuevo sector de la investigaci\u00f3n que fascina tanto a matem\u00e1ticos puros como a investigadores de las m\u00e1s variadas disciplinas (f\u00edsica, biolog\u00eda, econom\u00eda, ling\u00fc\u00edstica, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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