Sunday, February 10, 2008

tom stoppard

From Act One, Scene Four of Arcadia, in which Valentine describes to his pupil Hannah the idea of mathematical iteration in the context of a project he is working on (tracking grouse populations). In the conversation from which this passage was excerpted, Valentine and Hannah discuss objects of nature as mathematical models and how "the unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is."

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