Clearly, Seldon wanted to be a cipher except where psychohistory was concerned. Concerning his wife, we know only that she existed. His only son, Raych Seldon, is known to have been adopted, but how that came about is not known. Concerning his parents and sibling, we know a handful of facts, no more. As for his private life, it is a blank. Nor does he tell us of the blind alleys into which he crept, or the wrong turnings he may have made. His leaps of thought might have all been plucked from air for all he tells us.

There is no doubt that he himself encouraged this for at no time, in his formal writings, did he give any hint as to how he came to solve the various problems of pyschohistory. The story of the meeting.It is customary to think of Hari Seldon only in connection with psychohistory, to see him only as mathematics and social change personified. Seldon found the field little more than a set of vague axioms he left it a profound statistical science.The best existing authority we have for the details of his life is the biography written by Gaal Dormick who, as a young man, met Seldon two years before the great mathematician's death. Undoubtedly his greatest contributions were in the field of psycohistory. Anecdotes concerning his ability are innumerable, and some are contradictory. Born to middle-class parents on Helicon, Arcturus sector (where his father, in a legend of doubtful authenticity, was a tobacco grower in the hydroponic plants of the planet), he early showed amazing ability in mathematics.

The dates are more commonly given in terms of the current Foundation Era as -79 FE to the year 1 F.E. HARI SELDON - Born in the 11,988th year of the Galatica Era: died 12069.

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