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Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves? And Other Mathematically Bent Stories
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Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves? [electronic resource] : And Other Mathematically Bent Stories / by Colin Adams.
ISBN
9783031314919
Edition
1st ed. 2023.
Publication
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (X, 253 p.)
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Summary
Why is the Devil thrilled when Hell gets its first mathematician? How do 6 and 27 solve the diabolical murder of 9? What are the advantages a vampire has in the math world? What happens when we run out of new math to discover? How does Dr. Frankenstein create the ideal mathematical creature? What transpires when a grad student digging for theorems strikes a rich vein on the ridge overlooking Deadwood? What happens when math students band together to foment rebellion? What will a mathematician do beyond the grave to finish that elusive proof? This is just a small subset of the questions plumbed in this collection of 45 mathematically bent stories from the fertile imagination of Colin Adams. Originally appearing in The Mathematical Intelligencer, an expository mathematics magazine, these tales give a decidedly unconventional look at the world of mathematics and mathematicians. A section of notes is provided at the end of the book that explain references that may not be familiar to all and that include additional commentary by the author.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 19, 2023
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Immortality
Gold Rush
Prime Suspect
The Cabinet of Dr. Möbius
On Another Plane
The Modern Prometheus
Aftermath
Looking Backward
A Denial
Algebrexit
Fields Candidacy
Leonhard Euler and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg
The Great Storm
All Tied Up
The Adventures of Robin Caruso
Hardy and Ramanujan
Introduction to the Collected Works
Mathematicus
Happiness is a Warm Theorem
Motivational Seminar
Cylindra Ella
Referee's Support
Silence of the Lemmas
The Seven Labors of Hercules
Presidential Address
A Pi Day Carol
GUI
Math is Everywhere
Job Solicitation
CSI: MSRI
Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves?- A Ghost Story
Equinox
Secrets of Math Destruction
The Book
A Grader's Dream
The End of Mathematics
Definitions that Sizzle
Edutainment
A Prisoner's Dilemma
The Intergalactic Congress of Mathematicians
The Gulag
Where do Theorems Come From?- The Lord of the Rings 1: The NSF Fellowship of the Rings
Piracy
Notes.
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