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... scientists alike may serve to demonstrate , by sug- gesting that comparable laws are operative both in art and in na- ture , chaos theory currently provides the most fruitful of all conceptual bridges between ' the two cultures ...
... scientists alike may serve to demonstrate , by sug- gesting that comparable laws are operative both in art and in na- ture , chaos theory currently provides the most fruitful of all conceptual bridges between ' the two cultures ...
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... scientists that chaos theory has recently inspired is mutually beneficial to both , as witness La nouvelle alliance , the Belgian title of the book by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers ( published in English as Order Out of Chaos ) ...
... scientists that chaos theory has recently inspired is mutually beneficial to both , as witness La nouvelle alliance , the Belgian title of the book by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers ( published in English as Order Out of Chaos ) ...
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... Scientists have found them equally pertinent to the complexities of weather systems , population dynamics , drip- ping taps , beating hearts and chemical reactions . Creative artists have found them comparably pertinent to their own ...
... Scientists have found them equally pertinent to the complexities of weather systems , population dynamics , drip- ping taps , beating hearts and chemical reactions . Creative artists have found them comparably pertinent to their own ...
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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