The Topological Imagination

Spheres, Edges, and Islands

Angus Fletcher

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$41.00 • £32.95 • €37.00

ISBN 9780674504561

Publication Date: 04/04/2016

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224 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction
I. Topology and the Idea of Form
II. The Mind Imagining
III. Disparities in Metaphor
IV. Euler Discovers the First Edge
V. Vico and the Cycles of Human History
VI. “The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
VII. Notes on a Family of Edges
VIII. Shape and the Ethics of Scale
IX. “No Man Is an Island”
Background Reading
Acknowledgments
Index

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