Conceptual mathematics and literature : toward a deep reading of texts and minds / by Yair Neuman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neuman, Yair, 1968- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Studies in mathematics in the arts and humanities ; 2666-2299 v. 2.

Studies in mathematics in the arts and humanities, 2666-2299 ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading, Psychology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 175 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

List of Greek Letters

Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Difficulty of Reading

1 On the Difficulty of Reading

2 Abstract Nonsense and Concrete Nonsense

3 There Is Nothing New in This Book

4 Epilogue: Borges' Insight

Chapter 2 Symmetries and Literature, or How the Eel Popped Out of the Tap

1 On Augury, Birds and the Difficulty of Reading

2 On Eels and Conceptual Mathematics

3 Forgive Me Father for I Have Sinned

4 Tragic Transformations

5 From Sets to Categories

6 The Eel and Anu's Penis

7 From Anu's Penis to Conceptual Structures

Chapter 3 "Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?": On Forgetting and Similarities

1 On the Lesson We May Learn from a Riddle

2 Relations: from Peirce to Tesnière

2.1 Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano

Chapter 4 Maps of Identity: From Kafka's the Metamorphosis to Borges' Cartographers

1 Who Am I?

2 Man Is Never Coincident with Himself

3 On Borges' Map and Banach's Fixed-point Theorem

4 From Bakhtin to Banach, and from Banach to Embedding

5 Personal Identity: a Mathematical Perspective

6 Peirce on Self and Identity

7 Me, My Father, My Son and the Functor

8 On Retracts and Idempotents

Chapter 5 Perspectives and Transformations: From Rashomon to The Death of Bunny Munro

1 From a Different Perspective

2 Adjoints and Back-translation

2.1 The Death of Bunny Munro

Chapter 6 Hide and Seek: On the Reflective Novel

1 Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Reflective Mind

2 "Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe"

3 Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Coffee Bottle

4 The Reflective Subcategory

5 Rumpelstiltskin and Transformations

6 Here Comes the Author

Chapter 7 Everything Must Change: From Rabbit, Run to the Kreutzer Sonata

1 Rabbit, Run

2 Transformations: the Conceptual Mathematics Perspective

3 On the Troubled Relations of Harry, the Rabbit

4 Some Lessons about Rabbit

4.1 The Kreutzer Sonata

Chapter 8 On Dimensionality, Orthogonal Morphisms and the Naughty Turd

1 Dimensionality and the Complexity of the Novel

2 The Corrections of a Troubled Family

3 On Orthogonal Morphisms, Splitting and Complex Characters

Chapter 9 Discussion: Toward a Deep Reading of Texts and Minds

1 From the Stabat Mater to the Chanting Mountains

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Neuman, Yair, 1968- Conceptual mathematics and literature.

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9004442375

9789004442375

Publisher Number:

40030284745

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