| LC control no. | gf2016026090 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Mathematical fiction |
| Variant(s) | Math fiction Mathematics fiction Maths fiction |
| See also | Fiction |
| Scope note | Fiction that features mathematics and mathematicians. |
| Found in | Work cat.: Suri, G. A certain ambiguity : a mathematical novel, ©2007: summary (While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge--including religion. Together, the two men discover the power--and the fallibility--of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry. As grandfather and grandson struggle with the question of whether there can ever be absolute certainty in mathematics or life, they are forced to reconsider their fundamental beliefs and choices. Their stories hinge on their explorations of parallel developments in the study of geometry and infinity--and the mathematics throughout is as rigorous and fascinating as the narrative and characters are compelling and complex.) Kasman, A. Reality conditions : short mathematical fiction, ©2005 (sixteen short stories involving mathematics, including tales in which a nineteenth-century woman mathematician is murdered, a nursing home resident explains how he disproved Goldbach's conjecture in college, and Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell discovers electromagnetic waves) Stewart, I. Flatterland : like Flatland only more so, ©2001: jkt. (First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes a dazzling, modern sequel; provides an engaging, completely accessible guide to some of the trickiest concepts in contemporary mathematics. Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications; Flatterland is the story of Vikki's fantastic voyage through the Mathiverse. From the Charming Construction Entity to Moobius, the one-sided cow) Wikipedia, Sept. 14, 2016 (Mathematical fiction is a genre of creative fictional work in which mathematics and mathematicians play important roles. ... One of the earliest and much studied work of this genre is Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Though, probably, mathematical fiction might have existed since ancient times, it was rediscovered as a genre of literature recently, and since its rediscovery there has been a growing body of literature in this genre and the genre has attracted a growing body of readers. For example, Abbot's Flatland spawned a sequel in the twenty-first century in the form a novel titled Flatterland authored by Ian Stewart and published in 2001; Alex Kasman, a Professor of Mathematics at College of Charleston, who maintains a database of works that could possibly be included in this genre, has a broader definition for the genre: Any work containing mathematics or mathematicians has been treated as mathematical fiction) Padula, J. Mathematical fiction for senior students and undergraduates, in Australian senior mathematics journal, v. 20, no. 2, viewed online Sept. 14, 2016: p. 36 (Mathematical fiction has probably existed since ideas have been written down and certainly as early as 414 BC. Mathematical fiction is a recently rediscovered and growing literature, as sales of the novels: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) and The Da Vinci Code (2004) attest ... This article describes a novel and two plays with mathematical themes ... Traditionally, primary teachers have used children's literature to encourage mathematical thinking by providing an engaging and often humorous context for the introduction of mathematical-scientific ideas. It is generally acknowledged, for example, in a National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) curriculum yearbook, that (children's) literature can help students meaningfully connect their world to the world of mathematical ideas) p. 37 (mathematical fiction successfully "marries" literature and mathematics creating the ideal forum to nurture critical thinking and introduce sophisticated mathematical ideas; ninth graders as young as 13 or 14 years of age can engage with Flatland (Abbott, 1884, 1932) and the first five chapters of its modern update Flatterland (Stewart, 2001) to: develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; better understand different geometries, such as fractal geometry and different dimensions; develop the skill to make unbiased valid inferences; and, understand and discuss the philosophy of mathematics) Goodreads website, Sept. 14, 2016: Genres (Math Fiction; Mathematics Fiction) The Arthur Holt Library LibGuides website, Sept. 14, 2016 Mathematics > Maths Fiction (Maths Fiction. These books may contain elements of, or things that depend on, mathematics - number systems, codes or time travel, for example. They may use the narrative to explore simple or complex mathematical concepts.) |
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