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Introducción a la belleza de las matemáticas
Tras el éxito de la novela La fórmula preferida del profesor, Yoko Ogawa recoge en este libro una serie de conversaciones sobre el mundo de las matemáticas con el profesor y divulgador Masahiko Fujiwara. Estas conversaciones trazan un recorrido lúdico por la disciplina y por las vidas de ilustres matemáticos. Siguiendo la charla, conoceremos a genios apasionados que, a pesar de las dificultades, se convirtieron en grandes matemáticos y forman ya parte de la historia de la disciplina. Como, por ejemplo, el gran Ramanujan (quien, sumido en la pobreza, estudiaba matemáticas en las calles de su India natal con una tiza y una pizarra como únicos instrumentos) o el británico Alan Turing, que sentó las bases del ordenador moderno. Este libro en forma de conversación permitirá al lector entender la estrecha relación que existe entre la idea de belleza y las relaciones numéricas, entre la estética y la matemática, y nos permitirá comprender aquello que de verdad constituye el corazón mismo de este apasionante campo que inspiró la célebre novela de Yoko Ogawa: La fórmula preferida del profesor.
193 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 2017
About the author
Yōko Ogawa
143 books5,796 followersYōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Ogawa's "Kusuriyubi no hyōhon“ (薬指の標本), translated into French as "L'Annulaire“ (by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle who has translated numerous works by Ogawa, as well as works by Akira Yoshimura and by Ranpo Edogawa, into French).
Kenzaburō Ōe has said, 'Yōko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.' The subtlety in part lies in the fact that Ogawa's characters often seem not to know why they are doing what they are doing. She works by accumulation of detail, a technique that is perhaps more successful in her shorter works; the slow pace of development in the longer works requires something of a deus ex machina to end them. The reader is presented with an acute description of what the protagonists, mostly but not always female, observe and feel and their somewhat alienated self-observations, some of which is a reflection of Japanese society and especially women's roles within in it. The tone of her works varies, across the works and sometimes within the longer works, from the surreal, through the grotesque and the--sometimes grotesquely--humorous, to the psychologically ambiguous and even disturbing.
A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Ogawa's "Kusuriyubi no hyōhon“ (薬指の標本), translated into French as "L'Annulaire“ (by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle who has translated numerous works by Ogawa, as well as works by Akira Yoshimura and by Ranpo Edogawa, into French).
Kenzaburō Ōe has said, 'Yōko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.' The subtlety in part lies in the fact that Ogawa's characters often seem not to know why they are doing what they are doing. She works by accumulation of detail, a technique that is perhaps more successful in her shorter works; the slow pace of development in the longer works requires something of a deus ex machina to end them. The reader is presented with an acute description of what the protagonists, mostly but not always female, observe and feel and their somewhat alienated self-observations, some of which is a reflection of Japanese society and especially women's roles within in it. The tone of her works varies, across the works and sometimes within the longer works, from the surreal, through the grotesque and the--sometimes grotesquely--humorous, to the psychologically ambiguous and even disturbing.
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December 3, 2019
Una entrevista de Yoko Ogawa con Fujiwara un matematico bien chingón del japon. Me gusto porque es muy bonito leer, escuchar y sentir cuando a alguien le apasiona algo tanto. Tanto Ogawa y Fujiwara aman bien cabrón las matemáticas y se nota en sus pláticas.
January 11, 2018
"Hallar belleza allí donde suponemos que la vamos a encontrar no supone una gran sorpresa. Si, caminando entre un florido jardín, nos topásemos con un hermoso tulipán, el sobresalto no sería muy grande. Pero si, casualmente, nos tropezamos con uno entre la basura, eso ya sería otra cosa. Exactamente eso sentimos al hallar belleza u orden entre el caos."
December 21, 2022
Un libro precioso, te acerca a las matemáticas desde la mayor simplicidad, muy recomendable
August 19, 2021
Es chulo pero sencillito. Para niños/adolescentes recomendado.
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