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Mathematics and narrative

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  1. He completed this task in his Rede Lecture at Cambridge in 1959,“The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.”

  2. Scott Buchanan,Poetry and Mathematics, second edition (first edition, 1929). Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1962.

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  3. Edward Rothstein,Emblems of Mind, New York: Times Books, 1995.

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  4. John Allen Paulos had much the same idea and wrote OnceUpon a Number (New York: Basic Books, 1998), which I recommend to anyone who finds my discussion interesting.

  5. The philosopher Mario Bunge has published two slightly different lists of gross ways in which mathematics and fiction in particular differ; some apply to history and some do not. All can be debated.Treatise on Basic Philosophy. Volume 7,Epistemology and Methodology III: Philosophy of Science and Technology. Part I: Formal and Physical Sciences. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985.“Moderate mathematical fictionism” inPhilosophy of Mathematics Today. E. Agazzi and G. Darvas, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997; pp. 51–71.

  6. I have done this in two papers,“Mathe- matics and Fiction I: Identification,” and“Mathematics and Fiction II: Analogy,” to appear inLogique et Analyse.

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Thomas, R.S.D. Mathematical communities. The Mathematical Intelligencer 24, 43–46 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024731

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