Numbered Possibilities: Chaucer and the Evolution of Late-Medieval Mathematics.
- Author / Editor
- Baker, David.
Numbered Possibilities: Chaucer and the Evolution of Late-Medieval Mathematics.
- Published
- Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins, and Nina Engelhardt, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 23-40.
- Description
- Exemplifies how Chaucer "has a great deal of fun with the coalescence of medieval arithmetic, geometry and logic into a single discipline more recognizable today as mathematics," exploring the "proto-probabilistic" dicing and poison-bottle selection of PardT; the "ars-metrick" divisibility of the farthing / farting/parting pun and possible links with the pseudo-Alcuin "Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenas" in SumT; and a range of allusions to logic, mathematics, and physics in TC, including “dulcarnon,” “sliding,” and Ralph Strode.
- Contributor
- Tubbs, Robert, ed.
Jenkins, Alice Jenkins, ed.
Engelhardt, Nina, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Pardoner and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies