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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
David Ruelle

Born: August 20, 1935 (age 89)
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)