How does literature relate to mathematics? What role is played, what function fulfilled by mathematical elements within the literary text? These questions are the starting point of the essays in this ...

DETAILS of the history of mathematics are better left to specialists, who still have plenty of occupation in clearing up doubtful points and amending errors. But there is a growing opinion among ...

This spirited if inessential debut by Hart, a math professor at the University of London, surveys how math influences the structure, symbolism, and themes of literature. She posits that math and ...

In order to better understand capitalism, Karl Marx taught himself parts of algebra and calculus. Nevertheless, he was not a mathematical genius. The historian of science and mathematician Annette ...

Sarah Hart, the first woman to hold England’s distinguished Gresham professorship of geometry, explores the intersections of music, literature and mathematics. Sarah Hart, professor of geometry at ...