The Shape of Content
Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science
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2008
A K Peters (Verlag)
978-1-56881-444-5 (ISBN)
A K Peters (Verlag)
978-1-56881-444-5 (ISBN)
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A collection of poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. It portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences.
This book is a collection of creative pieces—poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts—that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. This book portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences. Creative writing about the content of mathematics and science is rare, and creative writing about the activity of mathematical and scientific creation is even rarer. And yet, when it occurs, it can be extremely popular, as well known plays like Proof and Copenhagen and biographies like A Beautiful Mind and The Man Who Loved Only Numbers attest. What draws the public to these works? And why, given that something does, are there so few examples of literature that engages these themes? Mathematics and science are part of world culture, part of the human spirit, fit subjects for art of all kinds.
This book is a collection of creative pieces—poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts—that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. This book portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences. Creative writing about the content of mathematics and science is rare, and creative writing about the activity of mathematical and scientific creation is even rarer. And yet, when it occurs, it can be extremely popular, as well known plays like Proof and Copenhagen and biographies like A Beautiful Mind and The Man Who Loved Only Numbers attest. What draws the public to these works? And why, given that something does, are there so few examples of literature that engages these themes? Mathematics and science are part of world culture, part of the human spirit, fit subjects for art of all kinds.
Chandler Davis, Majorie Senechal, Jan Zwicky
Introduction, Acknowledgments, Thanks, Marco Abate (metafiction), Colin Adams (humor essay), Madhur Anand (poem), Sandy Bonny (short story), Wendy Brandts (prose poem), S. Isabel Burgess (poems and prose poems), Robin Chapman (poems), Chandler Davis (poems), Florin Diacu (nonfiction), Adam Dickinson (poems), Susan Elmslie (poems), Claire Ferguson (essays), Emily Grosholz (poems), Lauren Gunderson (short story), Philip Holmes (poem sequence), Alex Kasman (short story), Ellen Maddow (drama), Marjorie Wikler Senechal (nonfiction), Manil Suri (short story), Randall Wedin (nonfiction), Paul Zimet (drama), Biographical Notes
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.10.2008 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Natick |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-56881-444-5 / 1568814445 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-56881-444-5 / 9781568814445 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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