Mathematical and Linguistic Characterization of Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Works

Taner Arsan, Sehnaz Sismanoglu Simsek, Onder Pekcan
4/11/2023
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In this study, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's works are chosen as examples of Turkish literature. By counting the number of letters and words in his texts, we find it possible to study his works statistically. It has been known that there is a geometrical order in text structures. Here the method based on the basic assumption of fractal geometry is introduced for calculating the fractal dimensions of Pamuk's texts. The results are compared with the applications of Zipf's law, which is successfully applied for letters and words, where two concepts, namely Zipf's dimension and Zipf's order, are introduced. The Zipf dimension of the novel My Name is Red is found to be much different than his other novels. However, it is linguistically observed that there is no fundamental difference between his corpora. The results are interpreted in terms of fractal dimensions and the Turkish language.

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Cite this paper

@article{arsan2023mathematical,
  title  = {Mathematical and Linguistic Characterization of Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Works},
  author = {Taner Arsan and Sehnaz Sismanoglu Simsek and Onder Pekcan},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2304.05512},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05512v1}
}

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