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Euclid's Elements is not a novel - but it could have been. Mathematics differs in obvious ways from conventional artistic literature, yet there are also similarities, explored here through writers including Plato, Galileo, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll. By considering possible definitions of what a novel is - using ideas from E. M. Forster, Mikhail Bakhtin and Gerard Genette - it is argued that the fundamental difference between conventional mathematical and artistic literature is one of form rather than content.
Author(s): Crumey A
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Mathknow: Mathematics, Applied Sciences and Real Life
Year of Conference: 2009
Pages: 9-25
Publisher: Springer
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9788847011212
