Synergetics and Its Application to Literature and Architecture
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2008-06-26 v1 Physics and Society
Abstract
A series of phenomena pertaining to economics, quantum physics, language, literary criticism, and especially architecture is studied from the standpoint of synergetics (the study of self-organizing complex systems). It turns out that a whole series of concrete formulas describing these phenomena is identical in these different situations. This is the case of formulas relating to the Bose-Einstein distribution of particles and the distribution of words from a frequency dictionary. This also allows to apply a "quantized" from of the Zipf law to the problem of the authorship of 'Quiet Flows the Don' and to the"blending in" of new architectural structures in an existing environment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.4164,
title = {Synergetics and Its Application to Literature and Architecture},
author = {V. P. Maslov and T. V. Maslova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4164},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
33 pages, 8 color figures