Extra-Linear
Dynamics, a.k.a. "E.L.D.", is that still-green shoot off the
pure branch of math that deals with systems and phenomena whose chaos is beyond even
Mandelbrotian math's Strange Equations and Random Attractants, a delimiting reaction against the
Chaos Theories of fractal-happy
meteorologists and systems analysts, E.L.D., whose
post-Godëlian theorems and
nonexistence proofs amount to extremely lucid and elegant
admissions of defeat in certain cases, hands thrown up w/ complete
deductive justification.
(From David Foster Wallace's Immense Tome Infinite Jest.)