Circles disturbed [electronic resource] : the interplay of mathematics and narrative / edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur.
Doxiadēs, Apostolos K., 1953-; Mazur, Barry.
2012
QA42 .C57 2012eb
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Title Circles disturbed [electronic resource] : the interplay of mathematics and narrative / edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur.
ISBN 9781400842681 (electronic book)
9780691149042
Publication Details Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 570 p.) : ill.
Call Number QA42 .C57 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 510.1/4
Summary 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't disturb my circles"--Words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds--stories representing the way we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they share profound connections and similarities. A book unlike any other, Circles Disturbed delves into topics such as the way in which historical and biographical narratives shape our understanding of mathematics and mathematicians, the development of "myths of origins" in mathematics, the structure and importance of mathematical dreams, the role of storytelling in the formation of mathematical intuitions, the ways mathematics helps us organize the way we think about narrative structure, and much more. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Amir Alexander, David Corfield, Peter Galison, Timothy Gowers, Michael Harris, David Herman, Federica La Nave, G.E.R. Lloyd, Uri Margolin, Colin McLarty, Jan Christoph Meister, Arkady Plotnitsky, and Bernard Teissier.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Doxiadēs, Apostolos K., 1953-
Mazur, Barry.
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From voyagers to martyrs : toward a storied history of mathematics / Amir Alexander
Structure of crystal, bucket of dust / Peter Galison
Deductive narrative and the epistemological function of belief in mathematics : on Bombelli and imaginary numbers / Federica La Nave
Hilbert on theology and its discontents : the origin myth of modern mathematics / Colin McLarty
Do androids prove theorems in their sleep? / Michael Harris
Visions, dreams, and mathematics / Barry Mazur
Vividness in mathematics and narrative / Timothy Gowers
Mathematics and narrative : why are stories and proofs interesting? / Bernard Teissier
Narrative and the rationality of mathematical practice / David Corfield
A streetcar named (among other things) proof : from storytelling to geometry, via poetry and rhetoric / Apostolos Doxiadis
Mathematics and narrative : an Aristotelian perspective / G.E.R. Lloyd
Adventures of the diagonal : non-Euclidean mathematics and narrative / Arkady Plotinitsky
Formal models in narrative analysis / David Herman
Mathematics and narrative : a narratological perspective / Uri Margolin
Tales of contingency, contingencies of telling : toward an algorithm of narrative subjectivity / Jan Christoph Meister.

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