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Mathematics applied to US policy and life in general. An interesting read.

tpmcafe.com — (I know that I'll get like 2 diggs for this submission, but it was interesting to *me* at least.) This article is a description of "Levy flight" as it applies to many things, from politics to social networking sites. The essential concept involves the "jump" from one area/school of thought/etc to another.

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  • iching, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"A Lévy flight, named after the French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy, is a type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a "heavy tailed" distribution.
    A heavy tail distribution is a probability distribution which falls to zero as 1/|x|α+1 where 0 < α < 2 and therefore has an infinite variance. According to the central limit theorem, if the distribution were to have a finite variance, then after a large number of steps, the distance from the origin of the random walk would tend to a normal distribution."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lévy_flight

    However Physicists think in 4-15 dimensions

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