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This chapter focuses on developments in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mathematics, their reverberations in philosophy, and the interrelations with literary modernism and writers’ aims to “make it new”. Addressing changes in mathematics such as a developing non-representational understanding, sense of crisis, and split into the schools of formalism and intuitionism, the chapter locates these in the wider philosophical matrix of the time and examines mathematical imagery and poetics in modernist works such as by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Robert Musil, and Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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Engelhardt, N. (2021). Mathematics and Modernism. In: Tubbs, R., Jenkins, A., Engelhardt, N. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55478-1_16
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