Circles Disturbed : : The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative /

Circles Disturbed : : The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative / / ed. by Barry Mazur, Apostolos Doxiadis.

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Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Alexander, Amir,
Corfield, David,
Doxiadis, Apostolos,
Galison, Peter,
Gowers, Timothy,
Harris, Michael,
Herman, David,
Lloyd, G . E . R .,
Margolin, Uri,
Mazur, Barry,
Mclarty, Colin,
Meister, Jan Christoph,
Nave, Federicala,
Plotnitsky, Arkady,
Teissier, Bernard,
HerausgeberIn:
Doxiadis, Apostolos,
Mazur, Barry,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (552 p.) :; 91 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. From Voyagers to Martyrs
  • Chapter 2. Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust
  • Chapter 3. Deductive Narrative and the Epistemological Function of Belief in Mathematics
  • Chapter 4. Hilbert on Theology and Its Discontents
  • Chapter 5. Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep?
  • Chapter 6. Visions, Dreams, and Mathematics
  • Chapter 7. Vividness in Mathematics and Narrative
  • Chapter 8. Mathematics and Narrative
  • Chapter 9. Narrative and the Rationality of Mathematical Practice
  • Chapter 10. A Streetcar Named (among Other Things) Proof
  • Chapter 11. Mathematics and Narrative: An Aristotelian Perspective
  • Chapter 12. Adventures of the Diagonal: Non-Euclidean Mathematics and Narrative
  • Chapter 13. Formal Models in Narrative Analysis
  • Chapter 14. Mathematics and Narrative: A Narratological Perspective
  • Chapter 15. Tales of Contingency, Contingencies of Telling
  • Contributors
  • Index

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