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... nature ( as personified by the cloned dinosaurs ) the Faustian bil- lionaire John Hammond and his associates turn out to be not its masters , but its prey . As a scientific concept , deterministic chaos cannot conceivably be described ...
... nature ( as personified by the cloned dinosaurs ) the Faustian bil- lionaire John Hammond and his associates turn out to be not its masters , but its prey . As a scientific concept , deterministic chaos cannot conceivably be described ...
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... nature and art - Their shared conceptual and structural concern with the complex interaction between order and chaos in nature , as in our lives which is the traditional stuff that fictions are made of clearly explains why so many ...
... nature and art - Their shared conceptual and structural concern with the complex interaction between order and chaos in nature , as in our lives which is the traditional stuff that fictions are made of clearly explains why so many ...
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... nature , and the markedly comparable dynamics governing certain complex works of art . Natural , mechanical and artistic fractals In nature , a complex nonlinear ( ' fractal ' ) structure such as an indi- vidual coastline , cloud ...
... nature , and the markedly comparable dynamics governing certain complex works of art . Natural , mechanical and artistic fractals In nature , a complex nonlinear ( ' fractal ' ) structure such as an indi- vidual coastline , cloud ...
Contents
chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture, and Chaos Theory Harriett Hawkins No preview available - 1995 |
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