Mathematics as Literature / Mathematics as Text Workshop 

 Mathematicians are authors: they manipulate symbols, they dedicate themselves to the production of a supremely textual artifact - the proof. Short of poetry, no other human endeavor is so closely focused on the properties of its text as such. In this workshop, scholars who have engaged with mathematics as text and literature come to discuss such matters as the metaphors of mathematics, the techniques of literary description in mathematical texts, and the sense in which mathematical works possess an aesthetic dimension.

Organized by Reviel Netz, Classics Department

Speakers are:
Amir Alexander, UCLA
Jacqueline Feke, Stanford University
Alain Herreman, University of Rennes, France
Reviel Netz, Stanford University
Courtney Roby, Cornell University
Roi Wagner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 Friday, April 13th, 2012 9am - 6pm
Classics Building 110 Room 112
Stanford University