Registration Open:
A colloquium on 'Literature and Mathematics in the Long Nineteenth Century' will be held at the University of Glasgow, 16-18 May 2011. All are very welcome to attend. The programme and registration information are available at www.englit.arts.gla.ac.uk/
- Marilyn Gaull: ‘Euclid Alone’
- Nigel Leask:‘‘Snatched from the Sickle and the Plough, To Gauge Ale-Firkins’: Robert Burns and the Excise’
- Daniel Brown:‘James Joseph Sylvester: The Romance of Space and the Calculus of Forms’
- Matthew Wickman: ‘Scott’s Shapes’
- Rachel Feder:‘Romantic Infinity: The Calculus & The Sublime’
- Melanie Bayley:‘Flatland, Darwin, and the Struggle for Persistence’
- Mark Blacklock:‘“Seeing as a Higher Child”: Hinton's Cubes and their Cultural Afterlives’
- Jason Hall: ‘Metre, Mathematics and the Fantasy of Accurate Measurement’
- Jonathan Farina:‘Calculation and Literary Interpretation’
- Elizabeth Throesch: Title TBA.
- Laurence Davies: ‘How to See the Fourth Dimension: Puzzles and Speculations’
- Alex Craik:‘Lord Kelvin's Popular Lectures and Addresses’
- Maggie Gover:‘Geometrically Inclined: Nineteenth-Century Optics and the War Between Mathematics and Experimentation’
- Michelle Boswell:‘The Poetical Mathematics and Mathematical Poetics of James Clerk Maxwell’
- Mark McCartney: ‘A Mind Running Slow and Clear: The Poetry of James Clerk Maxwell’
- Alice Jenkins: ‘Was There a ‘Common Context’ for Literature and Mathematics in English Periodicals?’
- Gabriela Fernandes Barberis:‘Spanish Contributions to Mathematical Literature and European Literary Influences’
- Joetta Harty:‘Empire of the Sums: The Power of Mathematics in Kim and Peter Pan’
- Nina Engelhardt:‘The Imaginary Domain as Transition Zone: Mathematics, Language and Reality in Musil's “The Confusions of Young Törless”’