# s-gst: literature with arithmetic inside

AA << graphed the happiness and sadness of words that occurred across the pages of more than 1,300 fiction works to reveal the emotional arcs and discovered relatively few variations >>

<< A different study (..) found that sentence lengths in books frequently form a fractal pattern—a set of objects that repeat on a small and large scale, the way small, triangular leaflets make up larger, triangular leaves that make up a larger, triangular palm frond >>

<< Why analyze the mathematics of literature? >>

Mark  Fischetti. Great  Literature  Is  Surprisingly Arithmetic. Scientific  American.  Feb. 2017.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/great-literature-is-surprisingly-arithmetic/