Great Circles
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-98230-4 (ISBN)
This volume explores the interaction of poetry and mathematics by looking at analogies that link them. The form that distinguishes poetry from prose has mathematical structure (lifting language above the flow of time), as do the thoughtful ways in which poets bring the infinite into relation with the finite. The history of mathematics exhibits a dramatic narrative inspired by a kind of troping, as metaphor opens, metonymy and synecdoche elaborate, and irony closes off or shifts the growth of mathematical knowledge.
The first part of the book is autobiographical, following the author through her discovery of these analogies, revealed by music, architecture, science fiction, philosophy, and the study of mathematics and poetry. The second part focuses on geometry, the circle and square, launching us from Shakespeare to Housman, from Euclid to Leibniz. The third part explores the study of dynamics, inertial motion and transcendental functions, from Descartes to Newton, and in 20th c. poetry. The final part contemplates infinity, as it emerges in modern set theory and topology, and in contemporary poems, including narrative poems about modern cosmology.Emily Rolfe Grosholz is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. She earned her PhD from Yale University and her BA from the University of Chicago, and has hundreds of papers, reviews, essays, and articles published in the areas of Philosophy and Literature.
Preface.- I. A Life in Mathematics and Poetry.- II. The Homestead.- III.- Shipping Out.- IV. The Sky's the Limit!.- Coda.
"The author is mostly writing for a broad audience, so much of the mathematics is presented so as to be accessible to a not necessarily mathematical audience. ... Great Circles provides an interesting example of the human side of mathematics." (Jason M. Graham, Mathematical Reviews, August, 2019)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.11.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts |
| Zusatzinfo | XII, 274 p. 42 illus., 31 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 596 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik |
| Schlagworte | algebraic topology • Complex Analysis • periodicity and symmetry • poetic cosmology • relativity theory |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-98230-3 / 3319982303 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-98230-4 / 9783319982304 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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