University of Trantor and Streeling University

[Alvis Elledge]

I've read all the books but I just can't remember if there is an
explanation. In the original "Foundation" novel Gaal Dornick is joining
Hari Seldon's project at the University of Trantor. By the time we get
to Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation it has become
Streeling University, correct? Was there ever an explanation for this?

Thanks,

Alvis

[S. T. L.]

<<University of Trantor. By the time we get
to Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation it has become
Streeling University>>

I don't believe that they are the same: Gaal's name never came up in connection
with Streeling in Prelude, did it?

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[Roger Smith]

I think Asimov was treating this just the way Oxford is. The University of
Trantor includes all the various universities on Trantor just as Oxford has
many colleges and universities, but we hear people calling them all Oxford
University.

Roger

Alvis Elledge wrote:

> I've read all the books but I just can't remember if there is an
> explanation. In the original "Foundation" novel Gaal Dornick is joining

> Hari Seldon's project at the University of Trantor. By the time we get

> to Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation it has become

[John Fairhurst]

In article <3939E82B...@hotmail.com>, Roger Smith informed us
that...

> Oxford has
> many colleges and universities,
>

Many colleges, yes. There is only the one Oxford University.

When I think about it I would imagine that the University of Trantor is
set up more like, say, the University of California where you get the
various campuses in the different cities (a British example would be the
University of Wales).
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[Kevin B. O'Brien]

For the benefit of Mr. Kite, John Fairhurst
<JFair...@compuserve.com> kindly said (on Wed, 14 Jun 2000
06:17:19 +0100):

>In article <3939E82B...@hotmail.com>, Roger Smith informed us
>that...
>> Oxford has
>> many colleges and universities,
>>
>
>Many colleges, yes. There is only the one Oxford University.
>
>When I think about it I would imagine that the University of Trantor is
>set up more like, say, the University of California where you get the
>various campuses in the different cities (a British example would be the
>University of Wales).

Ummm...I am right in the middle of re-reading Prelude, and the point
was that Seldon was fleeing to another Sector. The University of
Trantor was in the Imperial sector, and Seldon's later work was done
there. But during "The Flight" (as Encyclopedia Galactica terms it),
Seldon spent two months in hiding at Streeling University. The book
mentions that there were about one thousand universities (which
actually seems like a small number for 40 billion people), and that
Streeling was among the top 100 on Trantor, and thus among the elite
group that trained the bureaucrats of the Empire.

So Seldon spending time at Streeling is no more an inconsistency
than noting that a professor famous for work done at one university
had done research at another university earlier in his career. It
happens all the time. It certainly does not imply that the two
universities were branches of one common university.

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Kevin B. O'Brien <ko...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Ummm...I am right in the middle of re-reading Prelude, and the point
> was that Seldon was fleeing to another Sector. The University of
> Trantor was in the Imperial sector, and Seldon's later work was done
> there. But during "The Flight" (as Encyclopedia Galactica terms it),
> Seldon spent two months in hiding at Streeling University. The book
> mentions that there were about one thousand universities (which
> actually seems like a small number for 40 billion people), and that
> Streeling was among the top 100 on Trantor, and thus among the elite

I think you will find it is around 100,000 in total, and Streeling one of
the top 1,000 or so.

100,000 universities works out to one for every 400,000 people, which seems
reasonable.

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[davidl...@btinternet.com]

On Thursday, June 1, 2000 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Alvis Elledge wrote:
> I've read all the books but I just can't remember if there is an
> explanation. In the original "Foundation" novel Gaal Dornick is joining
> Hari Seldon's project at the University of Trantor. By the time we get
> to Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation it has become
> Streeling University, correct? Was there ever an explanation for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alvis

complicated universities. asimov was prof. biochem.
ucla, many universities & colleges. inside and around depends organisation.
mit - boston and around etc.

[colone...@yahoo.com]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, davidl...@btinternet.com wrote:

> On Thursday, June 1, 2000 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Alvis Elledge wrote:

Look at the #@#$%& date,