Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life

by Michael Frame

Book Overview

In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us--even the math-averse--to understand and cope with grief.

We all know the euphoria of intellectual epiphany--the thrill of sudden understanding. But coupled with that excitement is a sense of loss: a moment of epiphany can never be repeated. In Geometry of Grief, mathematician Michael Frame draws on a career's worth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226826481
• ISBN13: 9780226826486
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"