The Topological Imagination : : Spheres, Edges, and Islands / / Angus Fletcher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• VerfasserIn: Fletcher, Angus,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 1 halftone, 1 line illustration
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674968844; 9783110485103; 9783110485301; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674968844
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Angus Fletcher.

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.