MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write

[Matthew P Wiener]

Vaska writes:

>Eric Alan Weinstein wrote:

>>This also made me think of a Tom Stoppard play, Arcadia, in which
>>one of the principal characters dreams of a math complex enough to
>>explain real-world forms---a tree, a flower, a hillside----instead
>>of the geometry of squares, rectangles, etc. which dominates her
>>late 18th, early 19th C. world.

>Isn't this one of the things those chaos theory people are trying to do?

Yes.  Tom Stoppard is quite explicit about this in his play.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)