Thinking Inconveniently A Neuroqueer Project on Mathematics and Lyric Poetry
This is my mathematical translation of a poem belonging to the paralipomena (supplemental or appended texts) of Novalis’s “Die Lehrlinge zu Saïs” (The apprentices of Saïs). The poem reads as follows: It worked for one – he lifted the veil of the Goddess of Saïs – But what did he see? He saw – wonder...
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| Published in | Transverse Disciplines p. 203 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of Toronto Press
31.08.2022
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| Summary: | This is my mathematical translation of a poem belonging to the paralipomena (supplemental or appended texts) of Novalis’s “Die Lehrlinge zu Saïs” (The apprentices of Saïs). The poem reads as follows:
It worked for one – he lifted the veil of the Goddess of Saïs – But what did he see? He saw – wonder of wonders – himself.¹
The rendering is viable because this algebraic identity is analogous to the idea in the poem that an individual recognizes themselves in a higher power.
Novalis’s varied writings on mathematics, which often integrate literary structural thinking, lead me to believe that it is well within |
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| ISBN: | 148750845X 9781487508456 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/9781487538262-012 |