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... fact that deterministic chaos is not just a theoretical metaphor . In his book on Chance and Chaos , David Ruelle emphatically notes that The way we do mathematics is human , very much so . But mathe- maticians have no doubt that there ...
... fact that deterministic chaos is not just a theoretical metaphor . In his book on Chance and Chaos , David Ruelle emphatically notes that The way we do mathematics is human , very much so . But mathe- maticians have no doubt that there ...
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... fact , you can go all the way down the scale to a tiny speck of rock , seen under a microscope - it will have the same basic fractal shape as the big mountain . . . And this sameness also occurs for events . ' A cognate ' sameness ' of ...
... fact , you can go all the way down the scale to a tiny speck of rock , seen under a microscope - it will have the same basic fractal shape as the big mountain . . . And this sameness also occurs for events . ' A cognate ' sameness ' of ...
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... fact that order ordains as well as governs chaos in nature , even as Prospero conjures up the tempest and acknowledges Caliban as his own , may account for the fact that a similar dynamic ( and arguably both realistically and ...
... fact that order ordains as well as governs chaos in nature , even as Prospero conjures up the tempest and acknowledges Caliban as his own , may account for the fact that a similar dynamic ( and arguably both realistically and ...
Contents
chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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