Great Circles : The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry

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Intro Dedication Preface Contents Part I: A life in mathematics and poetry Chapter 1: The house of childhood References Chapter 2: Music and hyperspace References Chapter 3: Great books References Chapter 4: Home, Cambridge, Paris: a family References Part II: The homestead Chapter 5: What's in a circle? Spinoza, Leibniz, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Keats References Chapter 6: Four master tropes, from Euclid to Leibniz, with Burke References Chapter 7: Periodicity as symmetry in time: Housman References Part III: Shipping out Chapter 8: Troping in Italian gardens: Descartes, Wallis, La Hire, Gassendi References Chapter 9: Flow, rest, inertial motion: Wilner, Di Piero, Bonnefoy References Chapter 10: Troping towards the transcendental: Napier, Newton, Leibniz References Part IV: The sky's the limit! Chapter 11: Compactification: Randall, Fainlight, Sedakova References Chapter 12: Beyond deduction: from Descartes to Gödel References Chapter 13: Literary cosmology: Plato, Tobin, Major, Turner References Chapter 14: Coda References Acknowledgments: Poems Acknowledgments: art works Acknowledgments: Common Projects Related acknowledgments: essays by the author in journals or conference proceedings that contributed to great circles Philosophical Literary.