The Shape of Content
eBook - ePub

The Shape of Content

Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Shape of Content

Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access The Shape of Content by Chandler Davis,Marjorie Senechal,Jan Zwicky, Chandler Davis, Marjorie Senechal, Jan Zwicky in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Games in Mathematics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Thanks
  9. Marco Abate (metafiction): Ɖvariste and HĆ©loĆÆse
  10. Colin Adams (humor essay): Robbins v. New York
  11. Madhur Anand (poem): Dissecting Daisy
  12. Sandy Bonny (short story): Frames
  13. Wendy Brandts (prose poem): Collisions
  14. S. Isabel Burgess (poems and prose poems): Active Pass
  15. Magic Stretch Gloveā„¢: 85% acrylic, 15% spandex
  16. Tyndall Field
  17. Resonance
  18. There’s something I need to say to you
  19. Robin Chapman (poems): Praying to the God of Leavetakings
  20. Brave New Biosphere
  21. The All of It
  22. Chandler Davis (poems): Guided
  23. Our Study
  24. Presence
  25. Cold Comfort
  26. Florin Diacu (nonfiction): The Birth of Celestial Mechanics
  27. Adam Dickinson (poems): The Ghosts of Departed Quantities
  28. Eclipse
  29. Contributions to Geometry
  30. Great Chain of Being
  31. Susan Elmslie (poems): Algebra
  32. Chemistry
  33. Claire Ferguson (essays)
  34. Emily Grosholz: Hourya
  35. Trying to Describe the Reals in Cambridge
  36. Lauren Gunderson: The Ascending Life
  37. Philip Holmes (poem sequence): The Lines Remake the Places
  38. Alex Kasman (short story): On the Quantum Theoretic Implications of Newton’s Alchemy
  39. Ellen Maddow: Delicious Rivers
  40. Marjorie Wikler Senechal (nonfiction): The Last Second Wrangler
  41. Manil Suri (short story): The Tolman Trick
  42. Randall Wedin (nonfiction): Breaking Down the Barriers
  43. Paul Zimet (drama): Star Messengers
  44. Biographical Notes