Arcadia

Resources and Images

• "Stoppard, Tom" Encyclopædia Britannica Online. MHC Campus Only
• The Tom Stoppard Site fan site devoted to the works of Tom Stoppard
• A Tom Stoppard Bibliography Compiled by Michael H. Hutchins
  
  
• Arcadia Study Guide by Lary Opitz Department of Theater, Skidmore College
• The Arcadia Archive
  "A Website for Mr. Tom Stoppard's Renowned Play Arcadia - Being a Guide to the Play for Students of the English A-Level." Edited by Stephen Moss at the Cherwell School in Oxford
  
  
• Mathematics
  • Chaos, Fractals, and Arcadia by Robert L. Devaney Department of Mathematics Boston University
    
    
  • Behind the Scenes - Mathematics in Arcadia Tom Stoppard in conversation with Robert Osserman from Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)
    • Mathematics in Arcadia videotape of event
    • Math Program Plays to Packed House review article in SIAM News (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
      
      
  • Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the Steam Engine by Puja Sachdev
    
    
  • Chaos and Fractals
    • A Beginner's Guide to Chaos "a short introduction into some of the concepts and creations of Chaos Science."
    • What is Chaos? An interactive five-part online course for everyone by Dr. Matthew A. Trump, Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, Univ. of Texas at Austin
    • The Chaos Hypertextbook by Glenn Elert
      
      
    • Benoit Mandelbrot biography from The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
    • Gaston Maurice Julia biography from The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
      
      
    • Sprott's Fractal Gallery by Julien Clinton Sprott, Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin
    • Infinite Fractal Loop a web ring dedicated to fractal art.
      
      
    • Fractals: Not by the Numbers or Fractured Gary Tales by Dr. Gary Kerbaugh
      create your own fractals using the Java Fractal Drawers
    • Fractal Map
    • Mandelbrot Explorer
    • Java Julia Set Generator
      
      
    • Fractal Music: The Sound of Chaos from the Discovery Channel Online
    • The Fractal Music Project
      
      
      
• Selected Productions and Reviews
  • The Wilma Theater Philadelphia
  • Radford University
  • Whitman College
  • Dalhousie University
    
    
  • "A House of Games: In Arcadia, Tom Stoppard plays with words, centuries and the laws of entropy to produce a major dramatic work" by Brad Leithauser Time Domestic April 10, 1995 Volume 145, No. 15
  • Stoppard's Coolly Clever 'Arcadia' By Lloyd Rose Washington Post Friday, December 20, 1996; Page D01
    
    
  • Arcadia More reviews and links from the complete review: A Literary Saloon and Site of Review
    
    
  • Love and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia Theater Review by Allyn Jackson. Notices of the AMS (American Mathematical Society) November 1995 [copy of text in pdf; requires Adobe Acrobat]
  • Sex and Complexity Review by Tim Beardsley. Scientific American, July, 1997

   

   

 

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