Math and Literature<\/a><\/p>\n(Update 11\/16\/2019) <\/strong> I realized my excerpt on Philip Gosse was perhaps too brief and may not have made it clear as to what he proposed, so I added two more sentences to the excerpt to clarify. A related historical fiction account of the crisis perpetrated by the fossils, Darwin, and religion in the nineteenth century is given in Tracy Chevalier\u2019s 2009 book, Remarkable Creatures<\/em>, which adds the dimension of the struggle of women in science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a number of years I have collected excerpts that portray mathematical ideas in a literary or philosophical setting. I had occasion to read a few of these on the last day of some math classes I was teaching, since there was no point in introducing a new subject before the final exam. I thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[175,171,34,172,174,29,173,170,176,8],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","tag-droste-effect","tag-infinite-regress","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-logic","tag-martin-gardner","tag-permutations","tag-philip-gosse","tag-universal-library","tag-zenos-paradox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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For a number of years I have collected excerpts that portray mathematical ideas in a literary or philosophical setting. I had occasion to read a few of these on the last day of some math classes I was teaching, since there was no point in introducing a new subject before the final exam.<\/p>\n