Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between literature and mathematics
- Features wide-ranging scholarship on a variety of areas from medieval literature to contemporary literature
- Brings together top researchers and their interdisciplinary and cutting-edge work
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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.
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Keywords
- Romantic poetry Euclid
- Mathematics critical theory
- Isaac Newton poetry
- Geometry Victorian literature
- Numbers symbols in medieval literature
- Animal studies mathematics
- Gertrude Stein mathematics
- George Eliot mathematics
- Metaphor as an equation
- Ezra Pound modernism
- Patterns in Victorian mathematics literature
- Stochastics in postwar Literature
- Jorge Louis Borges infinity
- Geoffrey Chaucer chaos theory fractals
- Nonlinear aesthetics
- Mathematical proofs as literature
- Mathematics temporality
- Narrative mathematics
- Meter mathematics
- Mathematics contemporary theater
Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mathematics in Literature
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Mathematics, Modernism, and Literature
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Reviews
“This is an astonishing, wonderful book, for it offers a much wider panorama of the connection between literature and mathematics than thought possible … . there is much more in this very stimulating book.” (Victor V. Pambuccian, zbMATH 1475.00017, 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robert Tubbs is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He has published numerous research papers and four books, including What is a Number? (2009) and Mathematics in Twentieth Century Literature and Art (2014), both on mathematics and the humanities.
Alice Jenkins is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research centers on the emergence of the knowledge economy in the nineteenth century. Publications include Space and the 'March of Mind’: Literature and the Physical Sciences, 1815-1850 (2007). She is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine series.
Nina Engelhardt is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She is author of the monograph Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics (2018) and co-editor of Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Palgrave 2019).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics
Editors: Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins, Nina Engelhardt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55478-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55477-4Published: 31 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55480-4Published: 01 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55478-1Published: 30 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 623
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary Theory, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Science, History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences