Doxiadis / Mazur Circles Disturbed

The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4268-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Doxiadis, Apostolos

Mazur, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction vii

Chapter 1: From Voyagers to Martyrs: Toward a Storied History of Mathematics 1

By AMIR ALEXANDER

Chapter 2 Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust 52

By PETER GALISON

Chapter 3: Deductive Narrative and the Epistemological Function of Belief in Mathematics: On Bombelli and Imaginary Numbers 79

By FEDERICA LANAVE

Chapater 4: Hilbert on Theology and Its Discontents: The Origin Myth of Modern Mathematics 105

By COLIN MCLARTY

Chapter 5: Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep? 130

By MICHAEL HARRIS

Chapter 6: Visions, Dreams, and Mathematics 183

By BARRY MAZUR

Chapter 7: Vividness in Mathematics and Narrative 211

By TIMOTHY GOWERS

Chapter 8: Mathematics and Narrative: Why Are Stories and Proofs Interesting? 232

By BERNARD TEISSIER

Chapter 9: Narrative and the Rationality of Mathematical Practice 244

By DAVID CORFIELD

Chapter 10: A Streetcar Named (among Other Things) Proof: From Storytelling to Geometry, via Poetry and Rhetoric 281

By APOSTOLOS DOXIADIS

Chapter 11: Mathematics and Narrative: An Aristotelian Perspective 389

By G.E.R. LLOYD

Chapter 12: Adventures of the Diagonal: Non-Euclidean Mathematics and Narrative 407

By ARADY PLOTNITSKY

Chapter 13: Formal Models in Narrative Analysis 447

By DAVID HERMAN

Chapter 14: Mathematics and Narrative: A Narratological Perspective 481

By URI MARGOL N

Chapter 15: Tales of Contingency, Contingencies of Telling: Toward an Algorithm of Narrative Subjectivity 508

By JAN CHRISTOPH MEISTER

Contributors 541

Index 545

Über Autor(innen)

Apostolos Doxiadis is a writer whose books include Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture and Logicomix.
Barry Mazur is the Gerhard Gade University Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University. His books include Imagining Numbers and Arithmetic Moduli of Elliptic Curves (Princeton).