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Old 05-06-2008, 05:51 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Agreed. A problem with a lot of mathematical solutions is that they work perfect in isolation. Add the fluctuations of real life and math often falls short. Nature can't be confined to such sterility. Chaos theory explores hidden patterns. (don't tell this to mathematicians, because they consider it heresy; having convinced themselves that their discipline is perfect).
I'll just point out that Chaos Theory is itself a branch of mathematics, and its existence is no more heretical to modern mathematical theory than fuzzy logic is to computer science. (More fitting analogies enthusiastically encouraged.)
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