Tag: Le Guin Geometry

Mathematics and Narrative, continued

Romancing the Non-Euclidean Hyperspace Backstory — Mere Geometry, Types of Ambiguity, Dream Time, and Diamond Theory, 1937 For the 1937 grid, see Diamond Theory, 1937. The grid is,…

An Ordinary Evening

“…geometrically organized, with the parts labeled” — Ursula K. Le Guin on what she calls “the Euclidean utopia” “There is such a thing as a tesseract.” — Madeleine…

Dream Time

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” — William Butler Yeats From a document linked to here on April 30, Walpurgisnacht– “…the Golden Age, or Dream Time, is…

Types of Ambiguity

From Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)— Chapter One “There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut…

Mere Geometry

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — “Mereology (from the Greek μερος, ‘part’) is the theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of…