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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
David Ruelle
![David Ruelle](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: August 20, 1935 (age 88)
Bio: David Pierre Ruelle is a Belgian-French mathematical physicist. He has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems. With Floris Takens he coined the term strange attractor, and founded a new theory of turbulence.
Known for:
- Chance and Chaos (1991)
- Thermodynamic formalism (1978)
- The mathematician's brain (2007)
- Chaotic evolution and strange attractors (1989)