The Topological Imagination : spheres, edges, and islands / Angus Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, Angus, 1930-2016, author.

Contributor:

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Topology.

Mathematics--Philosophy.

Mathematics.

Art and science.

Knowledge, Theory of.

epistemology.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 215, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction

I. Topology and the Idea of Form

II. The Mind Imagining

III. Disparities in Metaphor

IV. Euler Discovers the First Edge

V. Vico and the Cycles of Human History

VI. "The Round Earth's Imagined Corners"

VII. Notes on a Family of Edges

VIII. Shape and the Ethics of Scale

IX. "No Man Is an Island".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

Local Notes:

QA611.F495 2016 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2019 has dust jacket retained and is "First printing".

ISBN:

9780674504561

0674504569

OCLC:

921994925

Publisher Number:

40025873462