Scientists Discover That James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Has an Amazingly Mathematical “Multifractal” Structure

It has long been thought that the so-called “Gold­en Ratio” described in Euclid’s Ele­ments has “impli­ca­tions for numer­ous nat­ur­al phe­nom­e­na… from the leaf and seed arrange­ments of plants” and “from the arts to the stock mar­ket.” So writes astro­physi­cist Mario Liv­io, head of the sci­ence divi­sion for the insti­tute that over­sees the Hub­ble Tele­scope. And … Con­tin­ue read­ing Sci­en­tists Dis­cov­er That James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Has an Amaz­ing­ly Math­e­mat­i­cal “Mul­ti­frac­tal” Struc­ture