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CIRCLES DISTURBED
CIRCLES DISTURBED
THE INTERPLAY OF MATHEMATICS AND NARRATIVE
Edited by APOSTOLOS DOXIADIS and BARRY MAZUR
Copyright © 2012 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 press.princeton.edu
Jacket illustration: Thomas Degeorge (1786–1854), The Death of Archimedes, 1815. Courtesy of the Collection of the Musée d’Art Roger-Quilliot Museum [MARQ], City of Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Circles disturbed: the interplay of mathematics and narrative / edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur.    p. cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 978-0-691-14904-2 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 1. Mathematics—Language. 2. Communication in mathematics. 3. Mathematics—History. 4. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. I. Doxiades, Apostolos K., 1953-II. Mazur, Barry.QA42.C57 2012510.1’4—dc23                   2011037043
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1 From Voyagers to Martyrs: Toward a Storied History of Mathematics
AMIR ALEXANDER
2 Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust
PETER GALISON
3 Deductive Narrative and the Epistemological Function of Belief in Mathematics: On Bombelli and Imaginary Numbers
FEDERICA LA NAVE
4 Hilbert on Theology and Its Discontents: The Origin Myth of Modern Mathematics
COLIN MCLARTY
5 Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep?
MICHAEL HARRIS
6 Visions, Dreams, and Mathematics
BARRY MAZUR
7 Vividness in Mathematics and Narrative
TIMOTHY GOWERS
8 Mathematics and Narrative: Why Are Stories and Proofs Interesting?
BERNARD TEISSIER
9 Narrative and the Rationality of Mathematical Practice
DAVID CORFIELD
10  A Streetcar Named (among Other Things) Proof: From Storytelling to Geometry, via Poetry and Rhetoric
APOSTOLOS DOXIADIS
11 Mathematics and Narrative: An Aristotelian Perspective
G. E. R. LLOYD
12 Adventures of the Diagonal: Non-Euclidean Mathematics and Narrative
ARKADY PLOTNITSKY
13 Formal Models in Narrative Analysis
DAVID HERMAN
14 Mathematics and Narrative: A Narratological Perspective
URI MARGOLIN
15 Tales of Contingency, Contingencies of Telling: Toward an Algorithm of Narrative Subjectivity
JAN CHRISTOPH MEISTER
Contributors
Index
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