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245 00 $aCircles disturbed :$bthe interplay of mathematics and narrative /$cedited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2012.
300 $axix, 570 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFrom 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.
520 $a"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."--Jacket.
650 0 $aMathematics$xLanguage.
650 0 $aCommunication in mathematics.
650 0 $aMathematics$xHistory.
655 0 $aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical.
650 0 $aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical.
655 7 $aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical.$2lcgft
700 1 $aDoxiadēs, Apostolos K.,$d1953-
700 1 $aMazur, Barry.
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