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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jessica K Sklar; Elizabeth Sherr Sklar |
| ISBN: | 9780786449781 0786449780 |
| OCLC Number: | 757462061 |
| Description: | viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jessica K. Sklar and Elizabeth S. Sklar ; foreword by Keith Devlin. |
Abstract:
Although mathematics has long been considered an arcane, inaccessible discipline, it has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In this compendium, contributors consider the role of maths in everything from blockbuster films, crossword puzzles, fantasy role-playing games, and TV shows to science fiction tales, award-winning plays, and classic works of literature.
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