This one extols Stoppard's realistic and sympathetic portrayal of scientists and the history of science, in contrast to Hollywood depictions. The Penn Reading Project. In 1995-1996, the University of Pennsylvania chose Tom Stoppard's Arcadia for the Penn Reading Project.
All incoming freshmen read the work as their introduction to the intellectual process.
Too may links, essays, graphics, reviews, and disciplines to begin to catalog. This very readable essay links the mathematics of fractal geometry with music, art, and physics. Newtonian physics, time versus eternity, the glories of landscape architecture, and sex. But at least he's looking, and it's the search itself that enlivens this unusually cerebral work. Chaos, Fractals, and Arcadia An animated description of some of the mathematical ideas lurking in the background of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia .