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Geometry of Grief
Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life
Taschenbuch von Michael Frame
Sprache: Englisch

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In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of usâ¿even the math-averseâ¿to understand and cope with grief.  We all know the euphoria of intellectual epiphanyâ¿the thrill of sudden understanding. But coupled with that excitement is a sense of loss: a moment of epiphany can never be repeated. In Geometry of Grief, mathematician Michael Frame draws on a careerâ¿s worth of insightâ¿including his work with a pioneer of fractal geometry Benoit Mandelbrotâ¿and a gift for rendering the complex accessible as he delves into this twinning of understanding and loss. Grief, Frame reveals, can be a moment of possibility. Frame investigates grief as a response to an irrevocable change in circumstance. This reframing allows us to see parallels between the loss of a loved one or a career and the loss of the elation of first understanding a tricky concept. From this foundation, Frame builds a geometric model of mental states. An object that is fractal, for example, has symmetry of magnification: magnify a picture of a mountain or a fern leafâ¿both fractalâ¿and we see echoes of the original shape. Similarly, nested inside great loss are smaller losses. By manipulating this geometry, Frame shows us, we may be able to redirect our thinking in ways that help reduce our pain. Smallâ?scale losses, in essence, provide laboratories to learn how to meet large-scale losses. Interweaving original illustrations, clear introductions to advanced topics in geometry, and wisdom gleaned from his own experience with illness and othersâ¿ remarkable responses to devastating loss, Frameâ¿s poetic book is a journey through the beautiful complexities of mathematics and life. With both human sympathy and geometrical elegance, it helps us to see how a geometry of grief can open a pathway for bold action.
In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of usâ¿even the math-averseâ¿to understand and cope with grief.  We all know the euphoria of intellectual epiphanyâ¿the thrill of sudden understanding. But coupled with that excitement is a sense of loss: a moment of epiphany can never be repeated. In Geometry of Grief, mathematician Michael Frame draws on a careerâ¿s worth of insightâ¿including his work with a pioneer of fractal geometry Benoit Mandelbrotâ¿and a gift for rendering the complex accessible as he delves into this twinning of understanding and loss. Grief, Frame reveals, can be a moment of possibility. Frame investigates grief as a response to an irrevocable change in circumstance. This reframing allows us to see parallels between the loss of a loved one or a career and the loss of the elation of first understanding a tricky concept. From this foundation, Frame builds a geometric model of mental states. An object that is fractal, for example, has symmetry of magnification: magnify a picture of a mountain or a fern leafâ¿both fractalâ¿and we see echoes of the original shape. Similarly, nested inside great loss are smaller losses. By manipulating this geometry, Frame shows us, we may be able to redirect our thinking in ways that help reduce our pain. Smallâ?scale losses, in essence, provide laboratories to learn how to meet large-scale losses. Interweaving original illustrations, clear introductions to advanced topics in geometry, and wisdom gleaned from his own experience with illness and othersâ¿ remarkable responses to devastating loss, Frameâ¿s poetic book is a journey through the beautiful complexities of mathematics and life. With both human sympathy and geometrical elegance, it helps us to see how a geometry of grief can open a pathway for bold action.
Über den Autor
Michael Frame retired in 2016 as adjunct professor of mathematics at Yale University. He is coauthor of Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, and Imagined and coeditor of Benoit Mandelbrot: A Life in Many Dimensions.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 200
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226826486
ISBN-10: 0226826481
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Frame, Michael
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Abbildungen: 45 halftones
Maße: 218 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Frame
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,238 kg
preigu-id: 125616835
Über den Autor
Michael Frame retired in 2016 as adjunct professor of mathematics at Yale University. He is coauthor of Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, and Imagined and coeditor of Benoit Mandelbrot: A Life in Many Dimensions.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 200
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226826486
ISBN-10: 0226826481
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Frame, Michael
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Abbildungen: 45 halftones
Maße: 218 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Frame
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,238 kg
preigu-id: 125616835
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