The Shape of Content

Name: The Shape of Content
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781568814445
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Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science

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The Shape of Content is a unique collection of creative works—poems, short stories, essays, and play excerpts—that artistically explore mathematical and scientific ideas. It showcases how diverse authors creatively engage with the content and activity of mathematics and science, an uncommon but captivating literary theme that intersects art with the human spirit and global culture.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in the creative interplay between science, mathematics, and literature, including academics, students, and anyone fascinated by artistic approaches to scientific ideas.

A collection of poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. It portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences.

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This book is a collection of creative pieces—poems, short stories, essays, and play excerpts—that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. The Shape of Content portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences.

Creative writing about the content of mathematics and science is rare, and creative writing about the activity of mathematical and scientific creation is even rarer. And yet, when it occurs, it can be extremely popular, as well-known plays like Proof and Copenhagen, and biographies like A Beautiful Mind and The Man Who Loved Only Numbers attest.

What draws the public to these works? And why, given that something does, are there so few examples of literature that engages these themes? Mathematics and science are part of world culture, part of the human spirit, fit subjects for art of all kinds.

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The anthology features 37 diverse pieces by 21 authors, ranging from metafiction on mathematical figures to humorous takes on legal cases involving mathematics. Critics praise its exploration of the intersection between literature and mathematics as profound and underrepresented. Some pieces feel incomplete, leaving readers wanting more, but overall, it is recognised as a strong and admirable effort to fuse analytical and creative thinking.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781568814445

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 October 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: A K Peters

Contributors:

Edited by Chandler Davis
Edited by Marjorie Senechal
Edited by Jan Zwicky

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 216

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Chandler Davis, Majorie Senechal, Jan Zwicky