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Geometry of Grief - Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life (Paperback)
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Geometry of Grief - Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life (Paperback)
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Loot Price R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated
teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us-even the
math-averse-to understand and cope with grief. We all know the
euphoria of intellectual epiphany-the thrill of sudden
understanding. But coupled with that excitement is a sense of loss:
a moment of epiphany can never be repeated. In Geometry of Grief,
mathematician Michael Frame draws on a career's worth of
insight-including his work with a pioneer of fractal geometry
Benoit Mandelbrot-and a gift for rendering the complex accessible
as he delves into this twinning of understanding and loss. Grief,
Frame reveals, can be a moment of possibility. Frame investigates
grief as a response to an irrevocable change in circumstance. This
reframing allows us to see parallels between the loss of a loved
one or a career and the loss of the elation of first understanding
a tricky concept. From this foundation, Frame builds a geometric
model of mental states. An object that is fractal, for example, has
symmetry of magnification: magnify a picture of a mountain or a
fern leaf-both fractal-and we see echoes of the original shape.
Similarly, nested inside great loss are smaller losses. By
manipulating this geometry, Frame shows us, we may be able to
redirect our thinking in ways that help reduce our pain.
Small-scale losses, in essence, provide laboratories to learn how
to meet large-scale losses. Interweaving original illustrations,
clear introductions to advanced topics in geometry, and wisdom
gleaned from his own experience with illness and others' remarkable
responses to devastating loss, Frame's poetic book is a journey
through the beautiful complexities of mathematics and life. With
both human sympathy and geometrical elegance, it helps us to see
how a geometry of grief can open a pathway for bold action.
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