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The Topological Imagination : Spheres, Edges, and Islands / Angus Fletcher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 1 halftone, 1 line illustrationContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674504561
  • 9780674968844
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 514 23
LOC classification:
  • QA611 .F495 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674968844

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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