A Portrait of Don Quixote from the Palette of Chaos Theory
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pursuing literary studies based on chaos theory: Turbulent Mirror (Briggs and Peta) and Chaos: Making a New Science (Gleick), two monographs aimed at the non-specialist; Does God Play Dice? (Stewart); The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems (Peitgen-Richter), a visually amazing scientific treatise; and Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty: Graphics from an Unseen World (Pickover), a hands-on manual for advanced computer aficionados. But before putting pen to paper, or turning your computer on, refer to Clark, an excellent and sobering commentary from a scientist’s point of view on the critical pitfalls literary scholars may fall when applying chaos theory to literary studies.
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