A topology of mind : spiral thought patterns, the hyperlinking of text, ideas and more / Robert K. Logan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.

This volume covers many diverse topics related in varying degrees to mathematics in mind including the mathematical and topological structures of thought and communication. It examines mathematics in mind from the perspective of the spiral, cyclic and hyperlinked structures of the human mind in term...

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Main Authors: Logan, Robert K., 1939- (Author), Pruska-Oldenhof, Izabella (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Series:Mathematics in mind.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Mathematics in Mind
  • 1. The Origins of Mathematics in the Mind
  • 2. Mathematics, the Human Mind, Verbal Language
  • 3. Mathematics, Writing, and Notation
  • 4. Mathematics, Deductive Logic, and Abstract Science
  • 5. Computing and the Internet
  • Part II: Spiral Patterns in Nature and Human Thought
  • 6. The Mathematical Structure of Cyclic Phenomena
  • 7. Spiral and Cyclic Structures in the Abiotic Inorganic Material World
  • 8. Life is a Spiral and it is Cyclic
  • 9. Spiral Thought Structures in History and Philosophy
  • 10. The Spiral Structure of Marshall McLuhan's Thinking
  • 11. Spirals and the Arts
  • Part III. Hyperlinking as Patterns of Connection
  • 12. Pre-Digital Forms of Hypertext
  • 13. Hypertext in the Digital Domain of Cyberspace
  • 14. Hypermedia
  • 15. Hyperlinking in the Spheres
  • Epilogue
  • References.