Great Circles : The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry /: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Emily Rolfe Grosholz.
• Authors: Grosholz, Emily, 1950-
• Contents: Intro; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Part I: A Life in Mathematics and Poetry; Chapter 1: The House of Childhood; References; Chapter 2: Music and Hyperspace; References; Chapter 3: Great Books; References; Chapter 4: Home, Cambridge, Paris: A Family; References; Part II: The Homestead; Chapter 5: What's in a Circle? Spinoza, Leibniz, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Keats; References; Chapter 6: Four Master Tropes, from Euclid to Leibniz, with Burke; References; Chapter 7: Periodicity as Symmetry in Time: Housman; References; Part III: Shipping Out Chapter 8: Troping in Italian Gardens: Descartes, Wallis, La Hire, GassendiReferences; Chapter 9: Flow, Rest, Inertial Motion: Wilner, Di Piero, Bonnefoy; References; Chapter 10: Troping Towards the Transcendental: Napier, Newton, Leibniz; References; Part IV: The Sky's the Limit!; Chapter 11: Compactification: Randall, Fainlight, Sedakova; References; Chapter 12: Beyond Deduction: From Descartes to Gödel; References; Chapter 13: Literary Cosmology: Plato, Tobin, Major, Turner; References; Chapter 14: Coda; References; Acknowledgments: Poems; Acknowledgments: Art Works Acknowledgments: Common ProjectsRelated Acknowledgments: Essays by the Author in Journals or Conference Proceedings that Contributed to Great Circles; Philosophical; Literary
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510; Mathematics; Mathematical recreations; Mathematics -- Study and teaching; Poetry in mathematics education; MATHEMATICS / Essays; MATHEMATICS / Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS / Reference; Mathematical recreations; Mathematics -- Study and teaching; Poetry in mathematics education; Mathematics -- Applied; Maths for scientists; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319982311; 3319982311
• Related ISBNs: 9783319982304; 3319982303
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed November 19, 2018).
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