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Mathematics
Jacques Roubaud
其他書名
(a Novel)
出版Dalkey Archive Press, 2012
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / LiteraryPerforming Arts / General
ISBN15647868389781564786838
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NVEfKQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Adopting math as a career relatively late in his studies, Roubaud here narrates his difficulties both personal and pedagogical, while also investigating the role of mathematics in his life as a remedy to all the messiness of lived experience. I sought out arithmetic, he writes, to protect myself. But from what? At the time, I would probably have replied: from vagueness, from a lack of rigor, from literature. But mathematics also provide a refuge from human fears, and from coping, eventually, with tragedies like the death of his wife Alix.