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... mathematics is human , very much so . But mathe- maticians have no doubt that there is a mathematical reality beyond ... mathematics of chaos . And presumably knew it long before the mathematicians did . Not only does the idea of chaotic ...
... mathematics is human , very much so . But mathe- maticians have no doubt that there is a mathematical reality beyond ... mathematics of chaos . And presumably knew it long before the mathematicians did . Not only does the idea of chaotic ...
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... mathematics ( as in nature ) is aesthetically beautiful . By now , computerized fractals abound : ' some are representational , while others are totally unrealistic and abstract . ' ' To the layman , fractal art seems to be magical ...
... mathematics ( as in nature ) is aesthetically beautiful . By now , computerized fractals abound : ' some are representational , while others are totally unrealistic and abstract . ' ' To the layman , fractal art seems to be magical ...
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... Mathematical Intelligencer , 2 , 126 ( 1980 ) , 37-48 . Smale , Stephen , ' Differentiable Dynamical Systems ' , Bulletin of the Ameri- can Mathematical Society , 73 ( 1967 ) , 747-817 . The Mathematics of Time : Essays in Dynamical ...
... Mathematical Intelligencer , 2 , 126 ( 1980 ) , 37-48 . Smale , Stephen , ' Differentiable Dynamical Systems ' , Bulletin of the Ameri- can Mathematical Society , 73 ( 1967 ) , 747-817 . The Mathematics of Time : Essays in Dynamical ...
Contents
chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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