Concerning Matters related to the Foundational system of Mathematics and its recent Progressions, with a Focus on the Science of Imaginary Solutions.
Timestamps:
introduction, mathematics background (0:00)
Alfred Jarry biography and background (9:12)
Alfred Jarry - "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician" (1898) (23:01)
Bibliography:
Fell, Jill. "Alfred Jarry" (2010)
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Kasman, Alex. Mathematican Fiction: https://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/
Shattuck, Roger and Taylor, Simon Watson. Introduction and notes to "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician", Exact Change (1996)
Struik, Dirk J. Struik. "Concise History of Mathematics, Volume II: The Seventeenth Century - The Nineteenth Century" (1948)
