Ian Stewart Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life: b. September 24, 1945
Birthday: September 24
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.
topic: Beauty, Art, Views, Physical Beauty, Order And Chaos, Polarity
