Deleuze and the History of Mathematics: In Defense of the 'New'

by Simon Duffy

Book Overview

Gilles Deleuze's engagements with mathematics, replete in his work, rely upon the construction of alternative lineages in the history of mathematics, which challenge some of the self imposed limits that regulate the canonical concepts of the discipline. For Deleuze, these challenges provide an opportunity to reconfigure particular philosophical problems - for example, the problem of individuation - and to develop new concepts in response to them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472591348
• ISBN13: 9781472591340
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"