Novalis and Mathematics: A Study of Friedrich von Hardenberg's Fragments on Mathematics and Its Relation to Magic, Music, Religion, Philosophy, Language, and Literature
Новalis и математика: исследование фрагментов Фридриха фон Харденберга о математике и её отношении к магии, музыке, религии, философии, языку и литературе
1965-04-01
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A study of in the interrelationship of the sciences and the humanities grounded in the writings of Novalis in the early Romantic period, this work is of special interest to literary historians, mathematicians, and mathematical historians. Alongside his analysis of Novalis' fragments relating to mathematics Dyck gives commentary on previous scholarship and a history of mathematics in the eighteenth century as both science and philosophy.
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It examines mathematics in relation to magic, music, religion, philosophy, language, and literature, emphasizing interconnections between sciences and humanities.
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It situates Novalis’s ideas within an eighteenth-century history of mathematics understood as both a science and a philosophy.
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The study provides commentary on previous scholarship concerning Novalis’s mathematical writings.
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The work analyzes Friedrich von Hardenberg’s (Novalis’s) mathematical fragments within the intellectual context of early Romanticism.
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The work is positioned as relevant to literary historians, mathematicians, and historians of mathematics.
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Novalis's (Friedrich von Hardenberg's) fragments on mathematics
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The interrelationships between mathematics and magic, music, religion, philosophy, language, literature, and the sciences and humanities in Novalis's writings
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