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HARI SELDON?.. born in the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era; died 12,069.
The dates are more  commonly given in terms of the current Foundational Era as  ?79  to  the year  1 F.E.  Born  to middle-class  parents  on Helicon,
Arcturus sector  (where his  father, in a legend  of doubtful authenticity¹,
was  a tobacco  grower in the  hydroponic plants  of the planet),  he early showed amazing ability in mathematics. Anecdotes² concerning his ability are innumerable, and  some are contradictory³. At the age of  two, he is said to have ...

...  Undoubtedly   his  greatest   contributions  were  in   the  field  of psychohistory.  Seldon found  the  field little  more than  a set  of vague axioms; he left it a profound statistical⁴ science....

... The best existing  authority we have for the details of his life is the biography written by Gaal Dornick who. as a young man, met Seldon two years before  the  great mathematician's  death.  The  story of  the meeting  ...



ENCYCLOPEDIA⁵ GALACTICA*

* All quotations⁶ from  the Encyclopedia Galactica here reproduced are taken from the 116th Edition published in 1020 F.E. by the Encyclopedia Galactica Publishing   Co.,   Terminus,    with   permission   of   the   publishers.

心理史学家
哈里·谢顿……生于银河纪元一一九八八年，卒于一二○六九年。他的生卒年分较常以目前通用的基地纪元记载，即生于基地纪元负八十一年，卒于基地元年。
谢顿的故乡为大角星区的赫利肯星，父母为中产阶级的平民。（根据并不可靠的传说，谢顿的父亲是该行星水耕区的烟草农夫。）他自幼就显露出惊人的数学天分，关于这些天分的传闻轶事不胜枚举，有些甚至互相矛盾。

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