Once upon a prime the wondrous connections between mathematics and literature
"For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can transform our understanding of literature and vice versa, by the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair. We often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites, as different as they...
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New York :
Flatiron Books,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Mathematical structure, creativity, and constraint
- One, two, buckle my shoe: the patterns of poetry
- The geometry of narrative: how mathematics can structure a story
- A workshop for potential literature: mathematics and the Oulipo
- Let me count the ways: the arithmetic of narrative choice
- Part 2: Algebraic allusions: the narrative uses of mathematics
- Fairy-tale figures: the symbolism of numbers in fiction
- Ahab's arithmetic: mathematical metaphors in fiction
- Travels in fabulous realms: the math of myth
- Part 3: Mathematics becomes the story
- Taking an idea for a walk: mathematical concepts so compelling they escape into fiction
- The real life of pi: thematic mathematics in the novel
- Moriarty was a mathematician: the role of the mathematical genius in literature.
