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Creativity and the socio-cultural niche

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The socio-cultural dimensions of the creative act is analysed by a mathematical model considering that the creative act is a mimes mutation as a result of an accumulation of evidences. So the mimes complex of a socio-cultural niche is changed explosively if given conditions which are mathematically determined, are accomplished. The equation determining the sociocultural dimensions of creativity is established and its solutions, are discussed.

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  1. Politechnical Institute Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 79590, Bucharest, (Roumania)

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Purica, I.I. Creativity and the socio-cultural niche. Scientometrics 15, 181–187 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017197

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