User:SystemPhantom/Rodrick Alden
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| Status | Missing |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Sociologist, Mathematician |
| Known for | Alden's Number |
| Notable work | Alden's Explanatory Compendium |
Dr. Rodrick Alden is/was[1] an American sociologist, scientist and mathematician, best known for his work in the field of mathematical sociology, in particular Alden's Theorem and the related Alden's Number. However, information about Alden and his work is extremely hard to come by as almost information relating to him has been either lost or destroyed ever since his disappearance in 1994.
Early life & disappearance[edit | edit source]
Alden was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, graduating from Northwest High School in 1988. He briefly served as the mayor in Omaha in March of 1991, stepping down 2 months later in order to focus on his studies at Creighton University. Alden graduated from Creighton University with a PhD in mathematical sociology in June of 1993.
Seven months after earning his PhD title, in January of 1994, Alden suddenly went missing and almost all of his works were expunged from online databases. Nobody has seen or directly heard from Alden since this point.
In 2021, an Omaha resident was hiking in the Neale Woods Nature Reserve when they found an index card in a pile of mud, with the words "RODRICK ALDEN IS NOT DEAD" written in blood on it. The Omaha Police Department later confirmed the blood used to write the note was a match with Rodrick Alden's DNA.
Alden's Explanatory Compendium[edit | edit source]
The only publicly available documents related to Alden's academic work are the first four pages of Alden's thesis paper, Alden's Explanatory Compendium. These pages outline some of his background and the context of his work, and begin to explain one of his mathematical models, with the content of the remaining 296 pages being unknown.[2] The one theorem which was shown in the available portion of Alden's thesis paper is called "Alden's Theorem."
Additionally, there was a mention of "Alden's Theory of Everything" in the paper, but what it entails is completely unknown.
Alden's Theorem[edit | edit source]
According to Alden's Explanatory Compendium, Alden's Theorem is a mathematical model which can theoretically predict with statistically significant results how the socioeconomic factors of a specific population will affect its inhabitants' behaviour. Alden's Theorem, for any specific subset of human population, produces a value which roughly corresponds to the potency of the impact an environment will influence its inhabitors by altering their behavioural characteristics to match those typically demanded of the environment. The theorem allegedly worked with near 100% predictive power according to scholarly anecdotes from those around Alden at the time of his disappearance, but today's researchers have not been able to decipher Alden's Theorem.
Alden's Theorem is:
![{\displaystyle A\ =\ \sum _{n=MN\prod _{j=6U}^{R}jU^{UYM}\int _{ZY}^{2^{U}}UDRdN}^{M^{2R}}{\frac {n\ln \left(\int _{{\frac {SM}{Y^{2}}}R}^{8\left(VB\right)\sum _{o={\frac {1}{3}}}^{10^{M}}V^{M}}R\log \left(U\right)VdU\right){\sqrt[{R^{R}}]{{\frac {2}{M^{2}}}+{\frac {B}{V^{2}}}}}{\frac {\operatorname {nCr} \left(\prod _{p=S}^{Y^{200S}}2p,\int _{S^{9}}^{10^{U}+M^{R}}e^{2R}RdB\right)}{\sum _{h=\int _{-10^{U}}^{U^{M}}e^{B}RdR}^{M+V^{-1}+R}n^{2}R}}}{\operatorname {lcm} \left(V,S,Z,Y,D\right)\cos \left({\frac {B}{\sin D^{2}}}\right)\int _{\pi }^{e\operatorname {mean} \left(U,MN,M^{U}\right)}\sum _{t=\log _{\pi }\left(R^{3}\right)}^{YD^{B}+e}{\frac {\operatorname {mean} \left(t,VR\right)B}{2^{M}}}dB}}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a189e3a5312d61779ec86592f314a1e39191b162)
where
- = Alden's Number, the applicable result of the equation.
The details and definitions of the variables and the application of Alden's Number are unknown as the fourth page of the paper cuts off at the words, "This theorem possesses explanatory power in the field of mathematical sociolog-".