Description: Further DetailsTitle: Circles DisturbedCondition: NewEAN: 9780691149042ISBN: 9780691149042Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/18/2012Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 964gContributor: Apostolos Doxiadis (Edited by), Barry Mazur (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: The Interplay of Mathematics and NarrativeISBN-10: 0691149046Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Science Nature & MathAuthor: Apostolos DoxiadisRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Circles Disturbed
Title: Circles Disturbed
EAN: 9780691149042
ISBN: 9780691149042
Release Date: 03/18/2012
Release Year: 2012
Contributor: Barry Mazur (Edited by)
Subtitle: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
ISBN-10: 0691149046
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 552 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Circles Disturbed : the Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: History & Philosophy, Logic
Item Height: 1.9 in
Item Weight: 34.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Barry Mazur
Subject Area: Mathematics
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Hardcover
