Hari Seldon

Character from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The father of psychohistory — a mathematician who proved the Galactic Empire would fall and devised a thousand-year Plan to shorten the coming dark age from thirty thousand years to one.

Also known as: Hari Seldon, Seldon, The Raven, Professor Seldon

What They Know

• Psychohistory can predict the behavior of large populations with extraordinary accuracy but is useless for individuals — the Uncertainty Principle of sociology
• The Galactic Empire will collapse within five centuries, followed by thirty thousand years of barbarism unless the Plan succeeds
• Two Foundations were established — the First on Terminus (public) and the Second at 'Star's End' (secret), each with distinct roles in the Plan
• The Plan requires that the Foundation not know the Plan's details — awareness would alter collective behavior and invalidate the predictions
• R. Daneel Olivaw, a 20,000-year-old robot, helped shape the conditions that made psychohistory possible
• Wanda Seldon, his granddaughter, possesses mentalic abilities that became the seed of the Second Foundation
• The Encyclopedia Galactica project is a cover story — its real purpose is to establish a colony of scientists on Terminus
• The Time Vault hologram appearances are pre-recorded at precise intervals calculated to coincide with Seldon Crises

Connections

• created — the Seldon Plan
• spouse_of — dors_venabili
• parent_of — raych
• mentor_of — gaal_dornick
• ally_of — demerzel
• rival_of — linge_chen
• parent_of — wanda_seldon
• member_of — First Foundation
• member_of — Second Foundation
• located_at — trantor
• created — psychohistory
• rival_of — cleon_i
• mentor_of — salvor_hardin
• mentor_of — hober_mallow
• rival_of — the_mule
• mentored_by — demerzel

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