The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics 1st Edition Robert Tubbs

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• ISBN 10:3030554783
• ISBN 13: 9783030554781
• Author:Robert Tubbs

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics. These connections range from mathematics and poetic meter to mathematics and modernism to mathematics as literature. Some chapters focus on a single author, such as mathematics and Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, or Charles Dickens, while others consider a mathematical topic common to two or more authors, such as squaring the circle, chaos theory, Newton’s calculus, or stochastic processes. With appeal for scholars and students in literature, mathematics, cultural history, and history of mathematics, this important volume aims to introduce the range, fertility, and complexity of the connections between mathematics, literature, and literary theory.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Relationships and Connections Between Literature and Mathematics
Part I. Mathematics in Literature
2. Numbered Possibilities: Chaucer and the Evolution of Late-Medieval Mathematics
3. Mercantile Arithmetic, Financial Profit, and Ben Jonson’s The Devil Is an Ass
4. Mathematics and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
5. Non-Normative Euclideans: Victorian Literature and the Untaught Geometer
6. Mathematical Contrariness in George Eliot’s Novels
7. Mathematics in Russian Avant-Garde Literature
8. Uses of Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry in Fiction
9. Mathematical Clinamen in the Encyclopedic Novel: Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace
10. Squaring the Circle: A Literary History
Part II. Mathematics and Literary Forms
11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter
12. Randomizing Form: Stochastics and Combinatorics in Postwar Literature
13. Oulipian Mathematics
14. Mathematics and Dramaturgy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
15. Nonlinearity, Writing, and Creative Process
Part III. Mathematics, Modernism, and Literature
16. Mathematics and Modernism
17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity
18. The Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
19. “Numbers Have Such Pretty Names”: Gertrude Stein’s Mathematical Poetics
20. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics I: Mathematics and Composition, with Mallarmé, Heisenberg, and Derrida
21. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics II: Mathematics and Event, with Mallarmé, Gödel, and Badiou
Part IV. Relations Between Literature and Mathematics
22. King Lear, Without the Mathematics: From Reading Mathematics to Reading Mathematically
23. Newton, Burns, and a Poetics of Figure: Toward a Prehistory of Consilience
24. The Mathematics of Associationism in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
25. Romantic Parts and Wholes, Statistical and Literary
26. “Colours of the Dying Dolphin”: Nineteenth-Century Defenses of Literature and Mathematics
27. Combinatorial Characters
28. Datelines
29. The Metaphor as an Equation: Ezra Pound and the Similitudes of Representation
Part V. Mathematics as Literature
30. Rehearsing in the Margins: Mathematical Print and Mathematical Learning in the Early Modern Period
31. Mathematics, Narrative, and Temporality
32. A Cognitive and Quantitative Approach to Mathematical Concretization

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