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A Mathematical Novel

Gaurav Suri

Hartosh Singh Bal

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factual mathematics
ctional narrative

mathematical fiction

1919


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A Certain Ambiguity
a certain ambiguity

certainty

Morris Kline
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

knowledgevs.
belief

true geometry

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parallelism

logic
vs. meaning

vs. vs.


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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

LCD

342

342
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Summertime

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Crazeology


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West End Blues

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The Way You Look Tonight

CD

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Now's the Time

Bird

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take-home

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The woods
are lovely, dark and deep/But I have promises to keep/And miles to go before
I sleep/And miles to go before I sleep.

forestwoods

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Percy Klug PK
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PK

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PK
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order

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M S M1 M1 M2M2 M3
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3.875 3.996
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1/2

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= 1 + (-1 + 1)+(-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) +
=1+0+0+0+0+=1

0 1

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PK

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Classic Papers in Algebraic Number Theory

1961

Elliptic Curves Over Function Fields

1919

1919

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/

1986 10
The American Atheist
Leonard LevyBlasphemy 508

Chapter 1

Zeno of Elea

2 + 1 + 1/2 +
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Mathematics: The Loss of CertaintyMorris
Kline 349

R. M. Sainsbury Paradoxes
16-17

M-
M-

T M 1,
M2, T M
M T

S, M1, M2, M3 T
M
T T M

T T M
M

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Lisieux Nicole
Oresme, 1323-1382

Dirk Struik A Source Book of Mathematics:

1200-1800 134-135 320

Chapter 3

Bhaskara Bhaskaracharya, 1114-1185

Ujjain
Lilavati

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Brown
University Kim Plofker 2003 AMS
MAA
The Mathematics Textbook and the Disappointed Daughter: History of a
Mathematical Urban Legend E. Allen Smith
http://www.ams.org/ams/plfkerjmm2003.html.

Pythagoras, 570?-490? BC

Pherekydes

Hippasus

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Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty 104

Chapter 4

302

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Maria Bohm

Amir Aczel The

Mystery of Aleph 131-132

Chapter 5

BaruchBenedictSpinoza, 1632-1677
abominable heresies

The Ethics

III
303
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XI

David Hilbert, 18621943

1899
Grundlagen der Geometrie

1930 9 8
1885 John Derbyshire
Prime Obsession: Bernard Riemann and the Greatest
Unsolved Problems in Mathematics

axiom of choice
A P(A)A
P(A) A
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SchroderBernstein A B B A A B

Costa Mittag-Lefer, 1846-1927

Acta Mathematica

Aczel The Mystery of Aleph 154

Chapter 6

28 Morris Kline

Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

78-88
305
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Gilrolamo Saccheri, 1667-1733

Tomaso Ceva

FakasWolfgangBolyai, 1775-1856
JanosJohannBolyai, 1802-1860

306

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Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky,

1792-1856
1829

1848

Kazan

CourantRobbinsWhat is
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Mathematics?
Felix Klein
Roger
Penrose The Road to Reality

Chapter 7

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777-1855

Bolyai
Lobachevsky

Hohenhagen-Inselberg-Brrocken

Kline 1980, 85

Bernard Riemann, 1826-1866

308

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On the Hypotheses
that Lie at the Foundations of Geometry
John DerbyshirePrime
Obsession 126-131

distance metric

Chapter 8

1919 11 7

280
Jennifer Hecht Doubt

309
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of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.
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Stewart, Oxford University Press, New York.
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Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, Joseph Henry Press, Washington,
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New York, 1980.
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Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

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Ritika
Vir

Sylvain Cappell
Harold Shapiro Richard
Patterson C. D. Aliprantis
Robert Floyd
Vickie Kearn

Akerxander Paseau Joan Richards

Beth Gallagher

Gaurav Bhatnagar Punya Mishra

Patricia Kimball
Mariea Datiz
M. M. Chawla Ranjan DasSiddhartha DebMarc Frantz
ChitvanSumit GuptaPriya HattiangdiVatsala KaulPraveen Madan
Chaman Nahal
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