Great Circles The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Grosholz, Emily Rolfe (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts,
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Social sciences.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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 th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• I. A Life in Mathematics and Poetry
• II. The Homestead
• III
• Shipping Out
• IV. The Sky's the Limit!
• Coda.