Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves? And Other Mathematically Bent Stories
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 tr...
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Birkhäuser
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of 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