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Abbott Stephen - The Proof Stage How Theater Reveals The Human Truth Of Mathematics - Hardcover
Abbott Stephen - The Proof Stage How Theater Reveals The Human Truth Of Mathematics - Hardcover
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Description: How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon Mc Burney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage The discovery of alternate geometries paradoxes of the infinite incompleteness and chaos theory revealed that despite its reputation for certainty mathematical truth is not immutable perfect or even perfectible. Beginning in the last century a handful of adventurous playwrights took inspiration from the fractures of modern mathematics to expand their own artistic boundaries. Originating in the early avant - garde mathematics - infused theater reached a popular apex in Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia. In The Proof Stage mathematician Stephen Abbott explores this unlikely collaboration of theater and mathematics. He probes the impact of mathematics on such influential writers as Alfred Jarry Samuel Beckett Bertolt Brecht and Stoppard and delves into the life and mathematics of Alan Turing as they are rendered onstage. The result is an unexpected story about the mutually illuminating relationship between proofs and plays from Euclid and Euripides to G del and Godot. Theater is uniquely poised to discover the soulful human truths embedded in the austere theorems of mathematics but this is a difficult feat. It took Stoppard twenty - five years of experimenting with the creative possibilities of mathematics before he succeeded in making fractal geometry and chaos theory integral to Arcadia's emotional arc. In addition to charting Stoppard's journey Abbott examines the post - Arcadia wave of ambitious works by Michael Frayn David Auburn Simon Mc Burney Snoo Wilson John Mighton and others. Collectively these gifted playwrights transform the great philosophical upheavals of mathematics into profound and sometimes poignant revelations about the human journey.
Title: The Proof Stage How Theater Reveals The Human Truth Of Mathematics
Author(s): Abbott Stephen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691206080
Pages: 416 Pages, 15 Color + 82 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 7/11/2023
Category: History Of Mathematics
Description: How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon Mc Burney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage The discovery of alternate geometries paradoxes of the infinite incompleteness and chaos theory revealed that despite its reputation for certainty mathematical truth is not immutable perfect or even perfectible. Beginning in the last century a handful of adventurous playwrights took inspiration from the fractures of modern mathematics to expand their own artistic boundaries. Originating in the early avant - garde mathematics - infused theater reached a popular apex in Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia. In The Proof Stage mathematician Stephen Abbott explores this unlikely collaboration of theater and mathematics. He probes the impact of mathematics on such influential writers as Alfred Jarry Samuel Beckett Bertolt Brecht and Stoppard and delves into the life and mathematics of Alan Turing as they are rendered onstage. The result is an unexpected story about the mutually illuminating relationship between proofs and plays from Euclid and Euripides to G del and Godot. Theater is uniquely poised to discover the soulful human truths embedded in the austere theorems of mathematics but this is a difficult feat. It took Stoppard twenty - five years of experimenting with the creative possibilities of mathematics before he succeeded in making fractal geometry and chaos theory integral to Arcadia's emotional arc. In addition to charting Stoppard's journey Abbott examines the post - Arcadia wave of ambitious works by Michael Frayn David Auburn Simon Mc Burney Snoo Wilson John Mighton and others. Collectively these gifted playwrights transform the great philosophical upheavals of mathematics into profound and sometimes poignant revelations about the human journey.
Title: The Proof Stage How Theater Reveals The Human Truth Of Mathematics
Author(s): Abbott Stephen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691206080
Pages: 416 Pages, 15 Color + 82 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 7/11/2023
Category: History Of Mathematics
