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The Mathematical Mind of F. M. Dostoevsky: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity

The Mathematical Mind of F. M. Dostoevsky: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity


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Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments List of Mathematical Terminology Chronology of Biographical Events Introduction: Tracing the Origins of Dostoevsky’s Mathematical Aesthetics Chapter 1: Dostoevsky’s Education at the Main Military Engineering School, 1838-1843 Chapter 2: The Certainty of Uncertainty, 2x2=5, and the Ontological Unity of the Real and the Imaginary in Notes from Underground Chapter 3: Null Sets, Pitfalls of Insolvability, and a Refutation of Utilitarian Calculus in Crime and Punishment Chapter 4: Probability, Spirituality, and Free Will Predicated on Unpredictability in The Gambler with Reference to the Personal Life and Other Writings of F.M. Dostoevsky Chapter 5: “There is no virtue, if there is no immortality”: Non-Euclidean Metaphysics and the Fallibility of Scientific Determinism in “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” and The Brothers Karamazov Conclusion: A Dynamic Mathematical Legacy Appendix: The Historical Development of Mathematics in Imperial Russia Bibliography About the Author

About the Author :
Michael Marsh-Soloway is director of the Global Studio at the University of Richmond.

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With its highly uncommon attentiveness to Dostoevsky’s mathematical imagination and to the history of mathematics in the Russian Empire, Marsh-Soloway’s book offers a fresh and illuminating explanation of how this strident critic of modernity can remain, one hundred and forty years after his death, so strikingly modern. Ambitious and highly relevant in our STEM-focused day and age, this book represents a substantial contribution to Russian literary and intellectual history. This meticulous study demonstrates the centrality of mathematical thinking in the writer’s philosophy and in his poetics. Thoroughly examining the curriculum of the Engineering School where Dostoevsky studied and its context in the history of Russian mathematics, Michael Marsh-Soloway demonstrates that when Dostoevsky renounced his career as a military engineer, he channeled far more of his scientific and technical education into his fiction writing than scholars and readers have previously noticed. An example of true interdisciplinarity, this book treats mathematics as a fully valid language in its own right, woven inextricably into the words, stories, and actions of Dostoevsky’s most compelling intellectual rebels. Like Leo Tolstoy, who used calculus and the analogy of integration to conceptualize his philosophy of history, Fyodor Dostoevsky embedded mathematics in his novels to develop and express the existential stances and worldviews of his literary characters. Michael Marsh-Soloway’s excellent book is the first English-language work to focus entirely on Dostoevsky’s engagement with mathematical concepts such as imaginary numbers, non-Euclidean geometry, infinity, probability theory, 'Pascal’s Wager,' the deductive heuristics of regula falsi and reductio ad absurdum, and statistical fallacies, among others, thereby making a significant contribution not only to Dostoevsky scholarship, but also to the study of mathematics in literature and to the growing fields of multidisciplinary research. This rigorous examination of Dostoevsky’s works brings together mathematics and metaphysics. Thanks to his own familiarity with mathematical concepts, Michael Marsh-Soloway is able to elucidate how Dostoevsky’s training as an engineer comes through in the writer’s attempts to find answers to philosophical questions. As a result, we are offered a critical reading of an important yet often undervalued side of Dostoevsky’s intellectual background.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781666948097
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1666948098
  • Publisher Date: 19 Nov 2024
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 394
  • Sub Title: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity


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