History of System Dynamics


  • Dynamical systems theory founded by Poincare ca 1882
  • General Systems Theory created by Von Bertalanffy ca 1950
  • System dynamics founded by Jay W. Forrester ca 1956
    Industrial Dynamics, 1961
    Principles of Systems, 1968
    World Dynamics, 1971
  • Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome, 1972

  • Revised 31 May 2002 by Ralph Abraham, <abraham@vismath.org>