The Geometry of Grief

"Michael Frame (born 1951), a mathematician, former professor at Yale University, and colleague of the creator of fractal theory Benoît Mandelbrot, explores the phenomenon of grief from a geometric perspective in his book. We grieve the loss of a loved... one, a pet, a former way of life — something dear and important to us. How can fractals, trajectories, and variables lessen this emotional pain?
According to Frame, understanding the "geometry" of one's experiences can help cope with loss. Analyzing grief as an irreversible loss, he turns to the laws of mathematics, literary plots, evolutionary biology, and personal experience. With their help, Frame derives his own theorems that allow one to see and analyze the complex patterns of feelings constituting grief through "self-similarity" in life choices, the multiverse theory, and the projection of negative emotions onto different "spaces" of consciousness."