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Circles disturbed : the interplay of mathematics and narrative / edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Language.
- Mathematics.
- Communication in mathematics.
- Mathematics--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 570 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 From Voyagers to Martyrs: Toward a Storied History of Mathematics / Amir Alexander Alexander, Amir 1
- 2 Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust / Peter Galison Galison, Peter 52
- 3 Deductive Narrative and the Epistemological Function of Belief in Mathematics: On Bombelli and Imaginary Numbers / Federica La Nave Nave, Federica La 79
- 4 Hilbert on Theology and Its Discontents: The Origin Myth of Modern Mathematics / Colin McLarty McLarty, Colin 105
- 5 Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep? / Michael Harris Harris, Michael 130
- 6 Visions, Dreams, and Mathematics / Barry Mazur Mazur, Barry 183
- 7 Vividness in Mathematics and Narrative / Timothy Gowers Gowers, Timothy 211
- 8 Mathematics and Narrative: Why are Stories and Proofs Interesting? / Bernard Teissier Teissier, Bernard 232
- 9 Narrative and the Rationality of Mathematical Practice / David Corfield Corfield, David 244
- 10 A Streetcar Named (among Other Things) Proof: From Storytell to Geometry, via Poetry and Rhetoric / Apostolos Doxiadis Doxiadis, Apostolos 281
- 11 Mathematics and Narrative: An Aristotelian Perspective / G. E. R. Lloyd Lloyd, G. E. R. 389
- 12 Adventures of the Diagonal: Non-Euclidean Mathematics and Narrative / Arkady Plotnitsky Plotnitsky, Arkady 407
- 13 Formal Models in Narrative Analysis / David Herman Herman, David 447
- 14 Mathematics and Narrative: A Narratological Perspective / Uri Margolin Margolin, Uri 481
- 15 Tales of Contingency, Contingencies of Telling: Toward an Algorithm of Narrative Subjectivity / Jan Christoph Meister Meister, Jan Christoph 508.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691149042
- 0691149046
- OCLC:
- 757838198
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