Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and Islands

Boldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the...
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Author: Angus Fletcher
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Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and Islands by Fletcher, Angus

Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and Islands

€97,39

Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and Islands

€97,39
Author: Angus Fletcher
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Boldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining two commonly opposed domains, literature and mathematics, Angus Fletcher maps the imagination's ever-ramifying contours and dimensions, and along the way compels us to re-envision our human existence on the most unusual sphere ever imagined, Earth.

Words and numbers are the twin powers that create value in our world. Poetry and other forms of creative literature stretch our ability to evaluate through the use of metaphors. In this sense, the literary imagination aligns with topology, the branch of mathematics that studies shape and space. Topology grasps the quality of geometries rather than their quantifiable measurements. It envisions how shapes can be bent, twisted, or stretched without losing contact with their original forms--one of the discoveries of the eighteenth-century mathematician Leonhard Euler, whose Polyhedron Theorem demonstrated how shapes preserve "permanence in change," like an aging though familiar face.

The mysterious dimensionality of our existence, Fletcher says, is connected to our inhabiting a world that also inhabits us. Theories of cyclical history reflect circulatory biological patterns; the day-night cycle shapes our adaptive, emergent patterns of thought; the topology of islands shapes the evolution of evolutionary theory. Connecting literature, philosophy, mathematics, and science, The Topological Imagination is an urgent and transformative work, and a profound invitation to thought.



Author: Angus Fletcher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04/04/2016
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780674504561


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2017

About the Author
Fletcher, Angus: - Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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