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Anonymous06/20/25, 13:49No.24481725
What's the intersection between math (specifically algebra) and literature? There was an interesting conversation about this amidst some professors at my uni, I overheard bits of it but I largely missed it. I get philosophy especially after Descartes but what's the intersection with literature more generally?
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Anon06/20/25, 14:10No.24481761
This photo is so baller, can some autist geolocate for the good of all?
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Anon06/21/25, 11:27No.24484532
Read Mccarthy's stella maris. It's the best trestise on this topic which doesn't treat math as a metaphor for art
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Anon06/21/25, 18:57No.24485559
>Okinawa
I wish I was there instead of this shithole country
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Anon06/21/25, 21:02No.24485839
There is some usage in sci-fi like
Permutation City by Greg Egan
The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
etcThere is some usage of mathematical concepts in literature forms, google "golden ratio in literature", for exaple. There are some books on the topic of "Mathematical Methods in Linguistics" or "Literary Mathematics" (google). There are books on history of mathematics, mathematical non-fiction, etc. And you can find articles like "Mathematics and Modern Literature".
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Anon06/21/25, 21:09No.24485860
The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
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Anon06/21/25, 22:27No.24486037
i've made an attempt at defining suffering mathematically in my new book, but only using analysis not algebra
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Anon06/21/25, 23:07No.24486113
Algebra, at its core, was an early attempt at using the rules of basic mathematics to define and describe deeper mathematical concepts. Over the centuries it has become the titanic and mature foundation that a staggering amount of higher mathematics is based on. A literary novel is much the same thing. If you look at early attempts at being literary, as opposed to folk-tales and moralistic stories and other more elementary forms of writing, you'll see the parallel between literature and algebra.
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Anon06/23/25, 05:45No.24489227
you need to read Borges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges_and_mathematics
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Anon06/23/25, 11:42No.24489662
There's absolutely no correlation between math and literature. In fact, they are on the opposite ends of the spectrum. Mathematics are the farthest thing possible from the human spirit. So much so, that if an alien civilization visited us, their mathematics would be almost identical in certain areas, the only difference being the symbols. Literature, on the other hand, is the closest thing to the human spirit. It is no possible to conceive literature without humanity, and it is not possible to conceive humanity without literature. Our thoughts and lives and eveything we do has a literary angle to it, and because of that, it only applies to us.