Topological Imagination - Spheres, Edges, and Islands

Informationen zum Autor Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Angus Fletcher, Fletcher Angus
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780674504561
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50456-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Geometry; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, MATHEMATICS / Topology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Topology