Editors
Robert Tubbs
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Alice Jenkins
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Nina Engelhardt
Department for English Literatures, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany
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A Chronological Organization of the Chapters
Note: Some chapters appear in several sections
Middle Ages
2. Numbered Possibilities: Chaucer and the Evolution of Late-Medieval Mathematics
David Baker
11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter
Jason David Hall
10. Squaring the Circle: A Literary History
Robert Tubbs
17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity
Howard Pollack-Milgate
Early Modern Period
30. Rehearsing in the Margins: Mathematical Print and Mathematical Learning in the Early Modern Period
Benjamin Wardhaugh
3. Mercantile Arithmetic Financial Profit and Ben Jonsons The Devil Is an Ass
Joe Jarrett
11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter
Jason David Hall
10. Squaring the Circle: A Literary History
Robert Tubbs
17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity
Howard Pollack-Milgate
22. King Lear, Without the Mathematics: From Reading Mathematics to Reading Mathematically
Travis D. Williams
Eighteenth Century
11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter
Jason David Hall
23. Newton, Burns, and a Poetics of Figure: Toward a Prehistory of Consilience
Matthew Wickman
24. The Mathematics of Associationism in Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy
Aaron Ottinger
17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity
Howard Pollack-Milgate
31. Mathematics, Narrative, and Temporality
Marcus Tomalin
Nineteenth Century
25. Romantic Parts and Wholes, Statistical and Literary
Margaret Kolb
11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter
Jason David Hall
5. Non-Normative Euclideans: Victorian Literature and the Untaught Geometer
Alice Jenkins
27. Combinatorial Characters
Andrea Henderson
26. Colours of the Dying Dolphin: Nineteenth-Century Defenses of Literature and Mathematics
Imogen Forbes-Macphail
28. Datelines
Steven Connor
4. Mathematics and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
Daniel Brown
6. Mathematical Contrariness in George Eliots Novels
Derek Ball
Twentieth CenturyFirst Half
11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter
Jason David Hall
29. The Metaphor as an Equation: Ezra Pound and the Similitudes of Representation
Jocelyn Rodal
20. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics I: Mathematics and Composition, with Mallarm, Heisenberg, and Derrida
Arkady Plotnitsky
21. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics II: Mathematics and Event, with Mallarm, Gdel, and Badiou
Arkady Plotnitsky
7. Mathematics in Russian Avant-Garde Literature
Anke Niederbudde
16. Mathematics and Modernism
Nina Engelhardt
10. Squaring the Circle: A Literary History
Robert Tubbs
17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity
Howard Pollack-Milgate
Twentieth CenturySecond Half, and Twenty-First Century
11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter
Jason David Hall
9. Mathematical Clinamen in the Encyclopedic Novel: Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace
Stuart Taylor
13. Oulipian Mathematics
Warren Motte
12. Randomizing Form: Stochastics and Combinatorics in Postwar Literature
Alison James
14. Mathematics and Dramaturgy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Liliane Campos
19. Numbers Have Such Pretty Names: Gertrude Steins Mathematical Poetics
Anne Brubaker
18. The Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Chris Ackerley
31. Mathematics, Narrative, and Temporality
Marcus Tomalin
8. Uses of Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry in Fiction
Alex Kasman
15. Nonlinearity, Writing, and Creative Process
Ira Livingston
32. A Cognitive and Quantitative Approach to Mathematical Concretization
Marc Alexander