Volume IX – On science and art
The volume includes the lectures and introductions to discussions presented at the Studium Generale in the academic year 2004/2005.
The academic year of 2003/2004 is regarded as the beginning of the second period of activity of Studium Generale. The common goal of the first and second periods was a diverse and possibly the most interdisciplinary reflection on the truth, cognition, beauty, and art. Thematic and methodological orientations have undergone certain changes. New thematic emphases consisted mainly of presenting diverse usages of fractal theory, self-organization, and deterministic chaos. These usages included selected branches of natural sciences and humanities. The new methodological tool was the didactically simplified theory of nonlinear dynamical systems, emphasising its qualitative methods.
The seminar materials in the volume are divided into three sections:
- Truth, cognition, beauty, art
- Chaos, fractals, evolution, anthropology, genetics, morphogenesis
- Number and space
The second part begins with a lecture given by prof. Roman Duda during the inauguration of the academic year 2002/2003 at University of Wrocław – which is a beautiful introduction to chaos theory.
