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Max's math
Max and his brothers drive to Shapeville and Count Town searching for problems, and are able to use their skills in arithmetic and sleuthing to help get things ready for a rocket launch.
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Alice in Pastaland : a math adventure
An imaginary trip through Pastaland provides Alice with opportunities to explore number concepts and basic arithmetic as she tries to help a white rabbit solve a math problem.
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Arithmechicks add up
Demonstrates key math concepts to children as ten math-loving chicks make a new friend\"--Provided by publisher.
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Pythagoras' revenge
The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novelPythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive,Pythagoras' Revengeweaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a surprising and sophisticated thriller.
The intrigue begins when Jule Davidson, a young American mathematician who trolls the internet for difficult math riddles and stumbles upon a neo-Pythagorean sect searching for the promised reincarnation of Pythagoras. Across the ocean, Elmer Galway, a professor of classical history at Oxford, discovers an Arabic manuscript hinting at the existence of an ancient scroll--possibly left by Pythagoras himself. Unknown to one another, Jule and Elmer each have information that the other requires and, as they race to solve the philosophical and mathematical puzzles set before them, their paths ultimately collide. Set in 1998 with flashbacks to classical Greece,Pythagoras' Revengeinvestigates the confrontation between opposing views of mathematics and reality, and explores ideas from both early and cutting-edge mathematics.
From academic Oxford to suburban Chicago and historic Rome,Pythagoras' Revengeis a sophisticated thriller that will grip readers from beginning to surprising end.
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Eco-Catastrophe, Arithmetic Patriotism and the Thatcherite Promise of Nature
This essay describes how the renovated 1970s liberalism that would become a major thread of Thatcherism grew on the back of public perceptions of crisis, and adapted worries about ecology to worries about 'financial ecology', or money supply. The natural conditions of money movement
have a particular place in the British constitution as the original basis of authority for the 1688 state, when Newtonian ideas of eternal laws of physics were 'financialised' by John Locke. In this thinking, the property basis of citizenship itself is nature, and must be underwired by universal
terms of exchange following natural rules. Although Thatcherism has often been described as an alien credo, it was largely enabled by this promise of a return to a financial natural law. In the terms borrowed from Luc Boltanski by William Davies, it returns to a 'political physics' which now
takes on a moral role preventing catastrophe, or an 'economic patriotism' seen to protect the constitution from political force. The 1970s return to Locke's understanding of nature builds on and repurposes visions of the catastrophic in popular culture, fiction, children's books and TV, which
I describe here. It begins with those eco-catastrophes that describe a 'disaster of nature', which it sees as also including the disaster of the property-producing role of labour, in the 'despotic' role of trade unions, and the perceived threat to money as a universal measure, a disaster that
would increasingly be given an arithmetic measure in inflation. For key liberal or neo-Lockean think-tanks of the mid1970s, the attack on natural law by despotic power, measured in inflation, could be seen as a mass erosion of individual responsibility, as dystopian, and as always calling
for a restoration of the balances of nature. The result is a permanent and quotidian vigilance over threats to nature that sees their solution, paradoxically, as the creation of more property. Understanding this binding between nature and property in the constitution that gave rise to Anglophone
capitalist modernity also helps give a fix on the way stories of ecological disaster can, as Frederick Buell has described, themselves be given values and repurposed for increased consumption.
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The politics of strangeness in Nigeria prose fiction
National and transnational human migration have appeared to be inevitable as a result of various situations across countries of the world. These migrants are often faced with double troubles of home challenges and issues of lack of acceptance of and sense of belonging of migrants and other negative impacts in their host communities. Employing the concept of otherness from a psychoanalytical and postcolonial theoretical perspective, this study textually analyze Afolabi’s three short stories (Monday Morning, The Wine Guitar and Arithmetic) in A Life Elsewhere (2007) in order to mirrors the ordeals of migrants and reactions of host communities as represented in the literary text. It is observed that experiences of migrants are diverse as their geographical locations. The study concludes that promotion and encouragement of a culture of positive reaction to strangers will abate the fears, worries and regrets of the migrants.
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Magical Transports and Transformations
Holocaust fiction and film for young audiences constitute a representational and pedagogical dilemma. Such narrative conventions as fantasy and fairy tale elements offer accessibility for young audiences to learn about the brutal and incomprehensible extremes of the Holocaust. However, they may also undermine the catastrophe's grim historicity. Examining Jane Yolen's Holocaust novelThe Devil's Arithmeticand its film adaptation alongside her novelBriar Rose, we address the following question: do uses of fantasy techniques such as magical transports and transformations soften, sanitize, and inevitably sentimentalize Holocaust history, or do those techniques express important historical knowledge?
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Fictionalist Nominalism and Applied Mathematics
For at least a century, mathematics has been a fertile source of arguments against nominalism. In the author's view, arguments from applied mathematics are particularly difficult for fictionalist nominalists to deal with. In section 1, he will present an argument based on applied mathematics against nominalism simpliciter. The argument is coextensive with the section. Although he in fact accept the argument, Section 1 is no more than a presentation or statement of the argument, and none of the declarative sentences it contains should be taken to be an assertion of the author's. In section 2, he will present a modification of the argument of section 1 that is directed specifically against fictionalist nominalism. In section 3, he will consider a reply to the argument of section 2 that is based on the common fictionalist contention that the mathematical fiction can be shown to be a conservative extension of nominalistically acceptable discourse.
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