Books by Apostolos Doxiadis
Papers by Apostolos Doxiadis
American Mathematical Monthly, Nov 1, 2000
World Literature Today, 2000
Princeton University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2012
Springer eBooks, Aug 13, 2007
Praise for Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture 'The most dramatic book I've rea... more Praise for Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture 'The most dramatic book I've read all year, with ambition, betrayal and greedy self-sacrifice to rival anything you'd find in an opera.' -Newsday An intellectual thriller that manages to convey the high drama and ...
Princeton University Press eBooks, Mar 18, 2012
This chapter traces the origins of deductive mathematical proof in classical Greece by drawing on... more This chapter traces the origins of deductive mathematical proof in classical Greece by drawing on the tradition of Jean-Pierre Vernant and G. E. R. Lloyd. It first considers how certain rhetorical concepts, methods, and patterns were instrumental to mathematical proof before discussing various cognitive modes, or stations, in historical development. The streetcar-named-Desire metaphor is used to examine certain cognitive aspects of the narrative, along with the linearity and nonlinearity of the narrative surface. The chapter then explores the role of narrative and poetic storytelling in the process of demonstration in Greek forensic rhetoric, along with the use of chiasmus and ring-composition as cognitive tools. Finally, it shows how both the macrostructure and the microstructure of the first proofs in Greek deductive mathematics were affected by forensic rhetoric, as this was shaped under the influence of the cognitive mechanisms of narrativity and the forms of poetic storytelling.
Toda familia tiene su oveja negra; en la nuestra era el tío Petros. Así lo afirma el sobrino fa... more Toda familia tiene su oveja negra; en la nuestra era el tío Petros. Así lo afirma el sobrino favorito de Petros Papachristosy narrador de las peripecias de su tío, al comienzo de la novela de Apostólos Doxiadis. En efecto, el anciano tío Petros vive retirado de la vida ...
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, 2010
In Vom Mythos zum Logos (1940), a book that became emblematic of a now rather passé, idealized vi... more In Vom Mythos zum Logos (1940), a book that became emblematic of a now rather passé, idealized view of ancient Greek culture, Wilhelm Nestle proposed that the greatest achievement of the Greeks was the abandonment of the mythological interpretation of the world in favor of a ...
Fiction & Literature, Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, Dec 1, 2010
Circles Disturbed
This chapter traces the origins of deductive mathematical proof in classical Greece by drawing on... more This chapter traces the origins of deductive mathematical proof in classical Greece by drawing on the tradition of Jean-Pierre Vernant and G. E. R. Lloyd. It first considers how certain rhetorical concepts, methods, and patterns were instrumental to mathematical proof before discussing various cognitive modes, or stations, in historical development. The streetcar-named-Desire metaphor is used to examine certain cognitive aspects of the narrative, along with the linearity and nonlinearity of the narrative surface. The chapter then explores the role of narrative and poetic storytelling in the process of demonstration in Greek forensic rhetoric, along with the use of chiasmus and ring-composition as cognitive tools. Finally, it shows how both the macrostructure and the microstructure of the first proofs in Greek deductive mathematics were affected by forensic rhetoric, as this was shaped under the influence of the cognitive mechanisms of narrativity and the forms of poetic storytelling.
Mathematics and Culture in Europe
This chapter traces the origins of deductive mathematical proof in classical Greece by drawing on... more This chapter traces the origins of deductive mathematical proof in classical Greece by drawing on the tradition of Jean-Pierre Vernant and G. E. R. Lloyd. It first considers how certain rhetorical concepts, methods, and patterns were instrumental to mathematical proof before discussing various cognitive modes, or stations, in historical development. The streetcar-named-Desire metaphor is used to examine certain cognitive aspects of the narrative, along with the linearity and nonlinearity of the narrative surface. The chapter then explores the role of narrative and poetic storytelling in the process of demonstration in Greek forensic rhetoric, along with the use of chiasmus and ring-composition as cognitive tools. Finally, it shows how both the macrostructure and the microstructure of the first proofs in Greek deductive mathematics were affected by forensic rhetoric, as this was shaped under the influence of the cognitive mechanisms of narrativity and the forms of poetic storytelling.
Choice Reviews Online
Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to e... more Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don't disturb my circles"--words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds--stories representing the way we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they share profound connections and similarities. A book unlike any other, Circles Disturbed delves into topics such as the way in which historical and biographical narratives shape our understanding of mathematics and mathematicians, the development of "myths of origins" in mathematics, the structure and importance of mathematical dreams, the role of storytelling in the formation of mathematical intuitions, the ways mathematics helps us organize the way we think about narrative structure, and much more. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Amir Alexander, David Corfield, Peter Galison, Timothy Gowers, Michael Harris, David Herman, Federica La Nave, G.E.R. Lloyd, Uri Margolin, Colin McLarty, Jan Christoph Meister, Arkady Plotnitsky, and Bernard Teissier.
London UK: Bloomsbury, 2009
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Books by Apostolos Doxiadis
Papers by Apostolos Doxiadis
My lecture at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, 22 October 2016.
Published in "Je suis Européen" (Amsterdam, 2015), a volume containing the proceedings of a conference on European identity, which took place in Amsterdam, in June 2015.