02418nam 22005415 450 99623474750331620210527144015.00-674-96884-010.4159/9780674968844(CKB)3710000000656362(DE-B1597)466602(OCoLC)979576280(DE-B1597)9780674968844(MiAaPQ)EBC5769482(Au-PeEL)EBL5769482(OCoLC)999354640(EXLCZ)99371000000065636220200723h20162016 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Topological imagination spheres, edges, and islands /Angus Fletcher[electronic resource]Cambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (224 p.) 1 halftone, 1 line illustrationFrontmatter --Contents --Introduction --I. Topology and the Idea of Form --II. The Mind Imagining --III. Disparities in Metaphor --IV. Euler Discovers the First Edge --V. Vico and the Cycles of Human History --VI. “The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” --VII. Notes on a Family of Edges --VIII. Shape and the Ethics of Scale --IX. “No Man Is an Island” --Background Reading --Acknowledgments --IndexIn a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.Art and scienceKnowledge, Theory ofMathematicsPhilosophyTopologyPHILOSOPHY / AestheticsbisacshElectronic books.Art and science.Knowledge, Theory of.MathematicsPhilosophy.Topology.PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.514Fletcher Angusauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut202793DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996234747503316The Topological imagination2572755UNISA