The Geometry of Grief

"Michael Frame (born 1951), a mathematician, 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 after losing a loved one, a pet, or a previous way of life — something dear and important to us. How can fractals, trajectories, and variables reduce this emotional pain?
According to Frame, understanding the "geometry" of one's experiences can help in coping with loss. By analyzing grief as an irreversible loss, he refers 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 that constitute grief through the "self-similarity" of life choices, the theory of the multiverse, and the projection of negative emotions onto different "spaces" of consciousness."