Nina Engelhardt is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Stuttgart. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has since held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, and the University of Cologne.

[The book] does not force mathematical concepts on literary works, but analyses texts which are deeply concerned with mathematics and its role in our approach to physical reality, but also as a cultural expression and even moral guideline. It is truly interdisciplinary, i. e. it does not rely on popularizations of science or previous works in the field of ‘science and literature’ but turns to the original source texts and to research from historians of science for the reconstruction of the relevant mathematical concepts and theories.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: All that Counts – Modernism, Fiction, Mathematics1 Mathematics and Politics: Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day2 Mathematics, Language, Structure: Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers3 Mathematics, Epistemology, Ethics: Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities4 Mathematics and Fiction: Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s RainbowConclusion: Modernism, Fiction, and Mathematics GlossaryBibliographyIndex

Nina Engelhardt is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Stuttgart. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has since held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, and the University of Cologne.

[The book] does not force mathematical concepts on literary works, but analyses texts which are deeply concerned with mathematics and its role in our approach to physical reality, but also as a cultural expression and even moral guideline. It is truly interdisciplinary, i. e. it does not rely on popularizations of science or previous works in the field of ‘science and literature’ but turns to the original source texts and to research from historians of science for the reconstruction of the relevant mathematical concepts and theories.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: All that Counts – Modernism, Fiction, Mathematics1 Mathematics and Politics: Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day2 Mathematics, Language, Structure: Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers3 Mathematics, Epistemology, Ethics: Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities4 Mathematics and Fiction: Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s RainbowConclusion: Modernism, Fiction, and Mathematics GlossaryBibliographyIndex

Nina Engelhardt is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Stuttgart. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has since held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, and the University of Cologne.

[The book] does not force mathematical concepts on literary works, but analyses texts which are deeply concerned with mathematics and its role in our approach to physical reality, but also as a cultural expression and even moral guideline. It is truly interdisciplinary, i. e. it does not rely on popularizations of science or previous works in the field of ‘science and literature’ but turns to the original source texts and to research from historians of science for the reconstruction of the relevant mathematical concepts and theories.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: All that Counts – Modernism, Fiction, Mathematics1 Mathematics and Politics: Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day2 Mathematics, Language, Structure: Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers3 Mathematics, Epistemology, Ethics: Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities4 Mathematics and Fiction: Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s RainbowConclusion: Modernism, Fiction, and Mathematics GlossaryBibliographyIndex