Isaac Asimov's science fiction series beginning in 1951, set over thousands of years as a mathematician develops psychohistory to guide civilization through the collapse of a galactic empire.
Invented psychohistory as a fictional science — the mathematical prediction of mass human behavior — and used it to explore questions about whether history can be managed, whether institutions can survive their founders, and how power transitions across civilizations.
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