The Topological Imagination : : Spheres, Edges, and Islands / / 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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 1 halftone, 1 line illustration |
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Table of 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