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Author Neuman, Yair

Title Conceptual Mathematics and Literature Toward a Deep Reading of Texts and Minds
Published Boston : BRILL, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (187 p.)
Series Studies in Mathematics in the Arts and Humanities Ser
Studies in Mathematics in the Arts and Humanities Ser
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- List of Greek Letters -- Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Difficulty of Reading -- 1 On the Difficulty of Reading -- 2 Abstract Nonsense and Concrete Nonsense -- 3 There Is Nothing New in This Book -- 4 Epilogue: Borges' Insight -- Chapter 2 Symmetries and Literature, or How the Eel Popped Out of the Tap -- 1 On Augury, Birds and the Difficulty of Reading -- 2 On Eels and Conceptual Mathematics -- 3 Forgive Me Father for I Have Sinned -- 4 Tragic Transformations
5 From Sets to Categories -- 6 The Eel and Anu's Penis -- 7 From Anu's Penis to Conceptual Structures -- Chapter 3 "Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?": On Forgetting and Similarities -- 1 On the Lesson We May Learn from a Riddle -- 2 Relations: from Peirce to Tesnière -- 2.1 Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano -- Chapter 4 Maps of Identity: From Kafka's the Metamorphosis to Borges' Cartographers -- 1 Who Am I? -- 2 Man Is Never Coincident with Himself -- 3 On Borges' Map and Banach's Fixed-point Theorem -- 4 From Bakhtin to Banach, and from Banach to Embedding
5 Personal Identity: a Mathematical Perspective -- 6 Peirce on Self and Identity -- 7 Me, My Father, My Son and the Functor -- 8 On Retracts and Idempotents -- Chapter 5 Perspectives and Transformations: From Rashomon to The Death of Bunny Munro -- 1 From a Different Perspective -- 2 Adjoints and Back-translation -- 2.1 The Death of Bunny Munro -- Chapter 6 Hide and Seek: On the Reflective Novel -- 1 Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Reflective Mind -- 2 "Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe" -- 3 Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Coffee Bottle -- 4 The Reflective Subcategory
5 Rumpelstiltskin and Transformations -- 6 Here Comes the Author -- Chapter 7 Everything Must Change: From Rabbit, Run to the Kreutzer Sonata -- 1 Rabbit, Run -- 2 Transformations: the Conceptual Mathematics Perspective -- 3 On the Troubled Relations of Harry, the Rabbit -- 4 Some Lessons about Rabbit -- 4.1 The Kreutzer Sonata -- Chapter 8 On Dimensionality, Orthogonal Morphisms and the Naughty Turd -- 1 Dimensionality and the Complexity of the Novel -- 2 The Corrections of a Troubled Family -- 3 On Orthogonal Morphisms, Splitting and Complex Characters
Chapter 9 Discussion: Toward a Deep Reading of Texts and Minds -- 1 From the Stabat Mater to the Chanting Mountains -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Reading, Psychology of.
Reading, Psychology of
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004442375
9004442375