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Article
Abstract
[Editors' Introduction]
This essay develops a new way of thinking about the cultural relationships among and within the sciences and the arts through a new understanding of the term postmodernism that at once derives from literary theory and the mathematical discipline of topology. While topology forms the main vertebra of this connective approach in its capacity as the mathematics of connectivity, quantum mechanics and non-Euclidean geometry -- the atlas and axis of this spinal column -- form the context through which this “postmodern” approach will develop. However, in order to position topology as a “postmodern” branch of mathematics, some brief explanations are in order: first, regarding postmodernism, and finally regarding topology.
Repository Citation
Blackwell, Brent M.. "Cultural Topology: An Introduction to Postmodern Mathematics." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 4, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1–28. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol4/iss4/2
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