The Topological imagination : spheres, edges, and islands / Angus Fletcher

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, Angus, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and science.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Mathematics--Philosophy.

Mathematics.

Topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.) : 1 halftone, 1 line illustration

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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”

Background Reading

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-96884-0

OCLC:

979576280