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Mathematics, poetry, and beauty /

By: Aharoni, Ron.
Contributor(s): Levin, Edward [translator] | Aharoni, Merav [translator].
Publisher: Hackensack, New Jersey ; Singapore : World Scientific, 2015Description: vii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789814602938; 9789814602945.Uniform titles: Matemaṭiḳah, shirah ṿe-yofi. English Subject(s): Mathematical recreations | Mathematics -- Study and teaching | Poetry in mathematics educationDDC classification: 510.19
Contents:
Introduction: magic -- Mathematics and poetry -- Displacement -- Part I: Order. The curious case of the ants on the pole -- Hidden order -- To discover or to invent -- Order and beauty -- Mathematical harmonies -- Why [square root] 2 is not a rational number -- The real numbers -- The miracle of order -- Simple conjectures, complex proofs -- Independent events -- Part II: How mathematicians and poets think. Poetic image, mathematical image -- The power of the oblique -- Compression -- Mathematical ping-pong -- The book in heaven -- Poetical ping-pong -- Laws of conservation -- An idea from somewhere else -- Three types of mathematics -- Topology -- Matchmaking -- Imagination -- A magic number -- Reality or imagination -- Unexpected combinations -- What is mathematics? -- Deep tautologies -- Symmetry -- Impossibility -- Infinitely large -- Cantor's story -- The most beautiful proof? -- Paradoxes and oxymorons -- Self-reference and Gödel's Theorem -- Halfway to infinity: large numbers -- Infinitely small -- Infinitely many numbers having a finite sum -- Twists -- Part III: Two levels of perception. Knowing without knowing -- Content and husk -- Change -- Estrangement -- An endless encounter -- Appendix A: Mathematical fields -- Appendix B: Sets of numbers -- Appendix C: Poetical mechanisms mentioned in the book.
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Introduction: magic -- Mathematics and poetry -- Displacement -- Part I: Order. The curious case of the ants on the pole -- Hidden order -- To discover or to invent -- Order and beauty -- Mathematical harmonies -- Why [square root] 2 is not a rational number -- The real numbers -- The miracle of order -- Simple conjectures, complex proofs -- Independent events -- Part II: How mathematicians and poets think. Poetic image, mathematical image -- The power of the oblique -- Compression -- Mathematical ping-pong -- The book in heaven -- Poetical ping-pong -- Laws of conservation -- An idea from somewhere else -- Three types of mathematics -- Topology -- Matchmaking -- Imagination -- A magic number -- Reality or imagination -- Unexpected combinations -- What is mathematics? -- Deep tautologies -- Symmetry -- Impossibility -- Infinitely large -- Cantor's story -- The most beautiful proof? -- Paradoxes and oxymorons -- Self-reference and Gödel's Theorem -- Halfway to infinity: large numbers -- Infinitely small -- Infinitely many numbers having a finite sum -- Twists -- Part III: Two levels of perception. Knowing without knowing -- Content and husk -- Change -- Estrangement -- An endless encounter -- Appendix A: Mathematical fields -- Appendix B: Sets of numbers -- Appendix C: Poetical mechanisms mentioned in the book.

Translated from Hebrew.

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