Abstraction is Organic: translating mathematical patterns through the literary substrate

Lucy Spouncer reframes ingression as translation between presentation systems rather than as traffic from a necessarily nonphysical realm. Drawing on mathematical practice, she argues that abstraction is organic and that translation gaps create room for agency, while emphasizing what is preserved, lost, and gained as mathematics moves between physical and formal substrates.

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