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Mathematics in popular culture
essays on appearances in film, fiction, games, television and other media
by Jessica K. Sklar and Elizabeth Sherr Sklar
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"In this compendium, contributors consider the role of math in blockbuster films, baseball, crossword puzzles, fantasy role-playing games, and television shows to science fiction tales, award-winning plays and classic works of literature. Revealing the broad range of intersections between mathematics and mainstream culture, this collection demonstrates that even "mass entertainment" can have a hidden depth. "--Provided by publisher.
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Mathematics in popular culture: essays on appearances in film, fiction, games, television and other media
2012, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Jessica K. Sklar and Elizabeth S. Sklar
The Game. A Survey of Fictional Mathematics in Literature / Alex Kasman
"You Never Said Anything About Math": Math Phobia and Math. Fanaticism in the World of Lost / Kristine Larsen
What's in a name? The Matrix as an Introduction to Mathematics / Kris H. Green
Computer Modeling in the Epidemiological Disaster Narrative : Mapping Contagion and Disease, Catastrophe and Destruction / Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Douglas Whittington
Fair and Unfair Division in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon / Michael D. C. Drout and William Goldbloom Bloch
Game Theory in Popular Culture: Battles of Wits and Matters of Trust / Jennifer Firkins Nordstrom
Coming Out of the Dungeon: Mathematics and Role-Playing Games / Kris H. Green
Playing Moneyball: Math and Baseball / Jeff Hildebrand
A Mathematician Does the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle / Gene Abrams
The Players. XKCD: A Web of Popular Culture / Karen Burnham
Counting with the Sharks: Math-Savvy Gamblers in Popular Culture / Matthew Lane
Stand and Deliver Twenty Years Later / Ksenija Simic-Muller, Maura Varley Gutierrez and Rodrigo Jorge Gutierrez
Smart Girls: The Uncanny Daughters of Arcadia and Proof / Sharon Alker and Roberta Davidson
Mean Girls: A Metamorphosis of the Female Math Nerd / Kristin Rowan
The Mathematical Misanthrope and American Popular Culture / Kenneth Faulkner
Alan Turing: Reflecting on the Life, Work, and Popular Representations of a Queer Mathematician / K.G. Vale
Mat(t)h Anxiety: Math as Symptom in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting / Donald l. Hoffman
Math + Metaphor. Thinking Outside the Box: Application Versus Discovery in Saw and Cube / Jessica K. Sklar
Tolstoy's Integration Metaphor from War and Peace / Stephen T. Ahearn
"We'll All Change Together": Mathematics as Metaphor in Greg Egan's Fiction / Neil Easterbrook
Truth by the Numbers: Mysticism and Madness in Darren Aronofsky's 1 / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman
Flatland in Popular Culture / Lila Marz Harper
Discovering a Higher Plane: Dimensionality and Enlightenment in Flatland and Diaspora / Chris Pak
Projective Geometry in Early Twentieth Century Esotericism: From the Anthroposophical Society to the Thoth Tarot / Richard Kaczynski.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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