Geometry of sorrow

Michael Frame (born 1951), a mathematician and former professor at Yale University, and a colleague of the creator of fractal theory Benoit Mandelbrot, explores the phenomenon of grief from a geometric perspective in his book. We grieve when we lose a loved one, a pet, or our previous way of life - something dear and important to us. How can fractals, trajectories, and variables help alleviate this emotional pain? According to Frame, understanding the 'geometry' of our experiences can help us cope with loss. By analyzing grief as an irreversible loss, he delves into the laws of mathematics, literary plots, evolutionary biology, and personal experience. With their help, Frame formulates his own theorems that allow us to see and analyze the complex regularity of emotions that make up grief through 'self-similarity' of life choices, the theory of the multiverse, and the projection of negative emotions onto different 'spaces' of consciousness.