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The shape of content : creative writing in mathematics and science

Title
The shape of content : creative writing in mathematics and science / edited by Chandler Davis, Marjorie Wikler Senechal, Jan Zwicky.
Publication
Wellesley, Mass. : A K Peters, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Davis, Chandler.
  • Senechal, Marjorie.
  • Zwicky, Jan, 1955-
Description
xvii, 194 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This book is a collection of creative pieces--poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts--that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. It portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Mathematics > Literary collections
  • Science > Literary collections
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Unterhaltungsmathematik
Genre/Form
  • Literature.
  • Literary collections.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Marco Abate (Metafiction) -- Colin Adams (Humor essay) -- Madhur Anand (Poem) -- Sandy Bonny (Short story) -- Wendy Brandts (Prose poem) -- S. Isabel Burgess (Poems and prose poems) -- Robin Chapman (Poems) -- Chandler Davis (Poems) -- Florin Diacu (Nonfiction) -- Adam Dickinson (Poems) -- Susan Elmslie (Poems) -- Claire Ferguson (Essays) -- Emily Grosholz (Poems) -- Lauren Gunderson (Short story) -- Philip Holmes (Poem sequence) -- Alex Kasman (Short story) -- Ellen Maddow (Drama) -- Marjorie Wikler Senechal (Nonfiction) -- Manil Suri (Short story) -- Randall Wedin (Nonfiction) -- Paul Zimet (Drama) -- Biographical notes.
ISBN
  • 9781568814445
  • 1568814445
LCCN
2008022399
OCLC
  • ocn230802060
  • 230802060
  • SCSB-14719911
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library