كتاب
Mathematics, poetry and beauty
| العنوان: | Mathematics, poetry and beauty |
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| المؤلفون: | Aharoni, Ron. |
| المساهمون: | Aharoni, Merav, translator., Levin, Edward, translator. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | vii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Mathematical recreations., Mathematics -- Study and teaching., Poetry in mathematics education. |
| الوصف: | What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: Beauty. Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare, says the title of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty tries to solve the secret of the similarity between the two domains. It tries to explain how a mathematical argument and a poem can move us in the same way. Mathematical and poetic techniques are compared, with the aim of showing how they evoke the same sense of beauty. The reader may find that, as Bertrand Russell said, Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty hold and austere, like that of sculpture ... sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction: magic -- Mathematics and poetry -- Displacement -- Part I: Order. The curious case of the ants on the pole -- Hidden order -- To discover or to invent -- Order and beauty -- Mathematical harmonies -- Why [square root] 2 is not a rational number -- The real numbers -- The miracle of order -- Simple conjectures, complex proofs -- Independent events -- Part II: How mathematicians and poets think. Poetic image, mathematical image -- The power of the oblique -- Compression -- Mathematical ping-pong -- The book in heaven -- Poetical ping-pong -- Laws of conservation -- An idea from somewhere else -- Three types of mathematics -- Topology -- Matchmaking -- Imagination -- A magic number -- Reality or imagination -- Unexpected combinations -- What is mathematics? -- Deep tautologies -- Symmetry -- Impossibility -- Infinitely large -- Cantor's story -- The most beautiful proof? -- Paradoxes and oxymorons -- Self-reference and Gödel's Theorem -- Halfway to infinity: large numbers -- Infinitely small -- Infinitely many numbers having a finite sum -- Twists -- Part III: Two levels of perception. Knowing without knowing -- Content and husk -- Change -- Estrangement -- An endless encounter -- Appendix A: Mathematical fields -- Appendix B: Sets of numbers -- Appendix C: Poetical mechanisms mentioned in the book. |
| Original Identifier: | (PromptCat)99962785752 ocn880501245 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-981-4602-93-8 978-981-4602-94-5 981-4602-93-0 981-4602-94-9 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Translated from the Hebrew. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014362650.7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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