Chandler Davis,Marjorie Senechal,Jan Zwicky's The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and PDF

By Chandler Davis,Marjorie Senechal,Jan Zwicky

ISBN-10: 1568814445

ISBN-13: 9781568814445

This ebook is a suite of inventive pieces—poems, brief tales, essays, play excerpts—that supply form to mathematical and clinical content material. This publication portrays via instance how numerous humans paintings creatively with rules from arithmetic and different sciences. artistic writing in regards to the content material of arithmetic and technological know-how is uncommon, and artistic writing concerning the job of mathematical and medical construction is even rarer. And but, whilst it happens, it may be very popular, in addition identified performs like evidence and Copenhagen and biographies like a gorgeous brain and the fellow Who enjoyed in simple terms Numbers attest. What attracts the general public to those works? And why, on condition that whatever does, are there so few examples of literature that engages those subject matters? arithmetic and technology are a part of international tradition, a part of the human spirit, healthy topics for paintings of all kinds.

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