"Circles Disturbed" brings together important thinkers in
mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship
between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the
last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he
was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don't disturb my circles"--words
that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the
practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that
of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and
theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two
worlds--stories representing the way we act and interact, and
theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and
bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems
seem totally different, they share profound connections and
similarities.
A book unlike any other, "Circles Disturbed" delves into topics
such as the way in which historical and biographical narratives
shape our understanding of mathematics and mathematicians, the
development of "myths of origins" in mathematics, the structure and
importance of mathematical dreams, the role of storytelling in the
formation of mathematical intuitions, the ways mathematics helps us
organize the way we think about narrative structure, and much
more.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Amir Alexander,
David Corfield, Peter Galison, Timothy Gowers, Michael Harris,
David Herman, Federica La Nave, G.E.R. Lloyd, Uri Margolin, Colin
McLarty, Jan Christoph Meister, Arkady Plotnitsky, and Bernard
Teissier.
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