Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelationsModernism in mathematics – this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions'from and about the heyday...
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Edinburgh University Press
2018
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