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The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science

By Marjorie Senechal , Chandler Davis , Jan Zwicky

Book information

Publisher
A K Peters/CRC Press
Year
2008
ISBN
1568814445, 9781568814445
LCC
PN6071.M3 S53 2008
Open Library ID
OL16899768M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4585797 bytes)
Pages
211\211
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book is a collection of creative pieces poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. This book 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. This book arose from a unique, remarkable effort to encourage practitioners who engage this content in their work and to spark collaborations: a series of week-long workshops organized by the editors and supported jointly by the world-famous Banff Centre for the Arts and the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery.

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