Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
by Nina Engelhardt
(Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture)
From a review by Johann A. Makowsky in
Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
November 2020, pp. 1589-1595 —
"Engelhardt’s goal in this study is to put the interplay
between fiction and mathematical conceptualizations
of the world into its historical context. She sees her work
as a beginning for further studies on the role of mathematics,
not only modern, in fiction in the wider field of literature and
science. It is fair to say that in her book Nina Engelhardt does
succeed in giving us an inspiring tour d’horizon of this interplay."
Another such tour —
On the title of Westworld Season 4 Episode 5, "Zhuangzi" —
A song for Teddy: "Across my dreams, with nets of wonder . . ."
See Zhuangzi also in the 2022 Black Rock CIty manifesto, "Waking Dreams" . . .
