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Author: Ciaran McMorran Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813057396 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 195
Book Description
In a paradigm shift away from classical understandings of geometry, nineteenth-century mathematicians developed new systems that featured surprising concepts such as the idea that parallel lines can curve and intersect. Providing evidence to confirm much that has largely been speculation, Joyce and Geometry reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry. Through close readings of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Joyce’s notebooks, Ciaran McMorran demonstrates that Joyce’s experiments with nonlinearity stem from a fascination with these new mathematical concepts. He highlights the maze-like patterns traced by Joyce’s characters as they wander Dublin’s streets; he explores recurring motifs such as the topography of the Earth’s curved surface and time as the fourth dimension of space; and he investigates in detail the enormous influence of Giordano Bruno, Henri Poincaré, and other writers who were critical of the Euclidean tradition. Arguing that Joyce’s obsession with measuring and mapping space throughout his works encapsulates a modern crisis between geometric and linguistic modes of representation, McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce’s work that has not been fully explored until now. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
Author: Ciaran McMorran Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813057396 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 195
Book Description
In a paradigm shift away from classical understandings of geometry, nineteenth-century mathematicians developed new systems that featured surprising concepts such as the idea that parallel lines can curve and intersect. Providing evidence to confirm much that has largely been speculation, Joyce and Geometry reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry. Through close readings of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Joyce’s notebooks, Ciaran McMorran demonstrates that Joyce’s experiments with nonlinearity stem from a fascination with these new mathematical concepts. He highlights the maze-like patterns traced by Joyce’s characters as they wander Dublin’s streets; he explores recurring motifs such as the topography of the Earth’s curved surface and time as the fourth dimension of space; and he investigates in detail the enormous influence of Giordano Bruno, Henri Poincaré, and other writers who were critical of the Euclidean tradition. Arguing that Joyce’s obsession with measuring and mapping space throughout his works encapsulates a modern crisis between geometric and linguistic modes of representation, McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce’s work that has not been fully explored until now. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
Author: Euclid Publisher: ISBN: 9781420956474 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 404
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Euclid was a mathematician from the Greek city of Alexandria who lived during the 4th and 3rd century B.C. and is often referred to as the "father of geometry." Within his foundational treatise "Elements," Euclid presents the results of earlier mathematicians and includes many of his own theories in a systematic, concise book that utilized a brief set of axioms and meticulous proofs to solidify his deductions. In addition to its easily referenced geometry, "Elements" also includes number theory and other mathematical considerations. For centuries, this work was a primary textbook of mathematics, containing the only framework for geometry known by mathematicians until the development of "non-Euclidian" geometry in the late 19th century. The extent to which Euclid's "Elements" is of his own original authorship or borrowed from previous scholars is unknown, however despite this fact it was his collation of these basic mathematical principles for which most of the world would come to the study of geometry. Today, Euclid's "Elements" is acknowledged as one of the most influential mathematical texts in history. This volume includes all thirteen books of Euclid's "Elements," is printed on premium acid-free paper, and follows the translation of Thomas Heath.
Author: Dominic D. Joyce Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019921560X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 314
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Covering an exciting and active area of research at the crossroads of several different fields in mathematics and physics, and drawing on the author's previous work, this text has been written to explain the advanced mathematics involved simply and clearly to graduate students in both disciplines.
Author: Dominic D. Joyce Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780198506010 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 460
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This is a combination of a graduate textbook on Reimannian holonomy groups, and a research monograph on compact manifolds with the exceptional holonomy groups G2 and Spin (7). It contains much new research and many new examples.
Author: Joyce Stulgis-Blalock Publisher: Mark Twain Media ISBN: 1580375677 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 131
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Teacher-tested Math Games is designed for fifth and sixth grade students to use various math skills while applying strategy to correctly solve three problems in a row to win each of the games. Concepts covered include place value, math operations, estimation, fractions, decimals, percents, proportions, properties, patterns, algebra, measurement, geometry, scale, data analysis, and problem solving. Meets NCTM standards and is correlated to state, national, and Canadian provincial standards. 128 pages
Author: Mark Gross Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642190049 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 245
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This is an introduction to a very active field of research, on the boundary between mathematics and physics. It is aimed at graduate students and researchers in geometry and string theory. Proofs or sketches are given for many important results. From the reviews: "An excellent introduction to current research in the geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds, hyper-Kähler manifolds, exceptional holonomy and mirror symmetry....This is an excellent and useful book." --MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
Author: Joyce Markovics Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning ISBN: 1625132204 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Set out for a day at the beach and learn about all the three-dimensional shapes you will see there. The book introduces the cone, cube, sphere, pyramid, and cylinder, all while using a familiar setting.
Author: Roger A. Johnson Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 048615498X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 338
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This classic text explores the geometry of the triangle and the circle, concentrating on extensions of Euclidean theory, and examining in detail many relatively recent theorems. 1929 edition.
Author: Thomas Jackson Rice Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252065835 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 228
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Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first traces the influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this reality. Joyce responded in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that Ulysses presages the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality.
Author: Ciaran McMorran
Author: Ciaran McMorran
Author: Euclid
Author: Joyce Markovics
Author: Dominic D. Joyce
Author: Dominic D. Joyce
Author: Joyce Stulgis-Blalock
Author: Mark Gross
Author: Joyce Markovics
Author: Roger A. Johnson
Author: Thomas Jackson Rice