Great Circles The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry /

• Main Author: Grosholz, Emily Rolfe (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Mathematics, Culture, and the Arts,
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

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