Synergetics and Its Application to Literature and Architecture

TL;DR

This paper explores how synergetics, the study of self-organizing systems, reveals common formulas across diverse fields like physics, language, literature, and architecture, enabling new insights and applications.

Contribution

It demonstrates that identical formulas describe phenomena in various disciplines, applying synergetics to analyze literature and architecture.

Findings

Formulas from Bose-Einstein distribution apply to word frequency analysis.

Quantized Zipf law helps in authorship attribution.

Synergetic formulas unify phenomena across disciplines.

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.