Great circles : the transits of mathematics and poetry / Emily Rolfe Grosholz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grosholz, Emily, 1950-2026, author.

Series:

Mathematics, culture, and the arts.

Mathematics, culture, and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics and literature.

Poetics.

Poetry in mathematics education.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics.

Mathematical recreations.

Physical Description:

xii, 274 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Contents:

Intro; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Part I: A Life in Mathematics and Poetry; Chapter 1: The House of Childhood; References; Chapter 2: Music and Hyperspace; References; Chapter 3: Great Books; References; Chapter 4: Home, Cambridge, Paris: A Family; References; Part II: The Homestead; Chapter 5: What's in a Circle? Spinoza, Leibniz, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Keats; References; Chapter 6: Four Master Tropes, from Euclid to Leibniz, with Burke; References; Chapter 7: Periodicity as Symmetry in Time: Housman; References; Part III: Shipping Out.

Chapter 8: Troping in Italian Gardens: Descartes, Wallis, La Hire, GassendiReferences; Chapter 9: Flow, Rest, Inertial Motion: Wilner, Di Piero, Bonnefoy; References; Chapter 10: Troping Towards the Transcendental: Napier, Newton, Leibniz; References; Part IV: The Sky's the Limit!; Chapter 11: Compactification: Randall, Fainlight, Sedakova; References; Chapter 12: Beyond Deduction: From Descartes to Gödel; References; Chapter 13: Literary Cosmology: Plato, Tobin, Major, Turner; References; Chapter 14: Coda; References; Acknowledgments: Poems; Acknowledgments: Art Works.

Acknowledgments: Common ProjectsRelated Acknowledgments: Essays by the Author in Journals or Conference Proceedings that Contributed to Great Circles; Philosophical; Literary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3319982303

9783319982304

OCLC:

1043887990