The Topological Imagination : Spheres, Edges, and Islands /
Fletcher, Angus
The Topological Imagination : Spheres, Edges, and Islands / Angus Fletcher. - 1 online resource (224 p.) : 1 halftone, 1 line illustration
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Topology and the Idea of Form -- II. The Mind Imagining -- III. Disparities in Metaphor -- IV. Euler Discovers the First Edge -- V. Vico and the Cycles of Human History -- VI. "The Round Earth's Imagined Corners" -- VII. Notes on a Family of Edges -- VIII. Shape and the Ethics of Scale -- IX. "No Man Is an Island" -- Background Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology-a branch of mathematics-he maps the ways the imagination's contours are formed by the spherical earth's patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674504561 9780674968844
10.4159/9780674968844 doi
Art and science.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Mathematics--Philosophy.
Topology.
PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.
QA611 / .F495 2016
514
The Topological Imagination : Spheres, Edges, and Islands / Angus Fletcher. - 1 online resource (224 p.) : 1 halftone, 1 line illustration
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Topology and the Idea of Form -- II. The Mind Imagining -- III. Disparities in Metaphor -- IV. Euler Discovers the First Edge -- V. Vico and the Cycles of Human History -- VI. "The Round Earth's Imagined Corners" -- VII. Notes on a Family of Edges -- VIII. Shape and the Ethics of Scale -- IX. "No Man Is an Island" -- Background Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology-a branch of mathematics-he maps the ways the imagination's contours are formed by the spherical earth's patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674504561 9780674968844
10.4159/9780674968844 doi
Art and science.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Mathematics--Philosophy.
Topology.
PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.
QA611 / .F495 2016
514