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• Title:Mathematics in popular culture : essays on appearances in film, fiction, games, television and other media / edited by Jessica K. Sklar and Elizabeth S. Sklar ; foreword by Keith Devlin.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Sklar, Jessica K., 1973-
  Sklar, Elizabeth Sherr.
  
• Published/Created:Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: P96.M395 M38 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mathematics in mass media.
  Popular culture--United States.
  Mass media and culture--United States.
  
• Description:viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Summary: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.--Publisher information.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780786449781 (softcover : alk. paper)
  0786449780 (softcover : alk. paper)
  
• 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 Green ; Mapping contagion and disease, catastrophe and destruction: computer modeling in the epidemiological disaster narrative / Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Douglas Whittington ; Fair and unfair division in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon / William Goldbloom Bloch and Michael D.C. Drout ; 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 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 Gutiérrez and Rodrigo Jorge Gutiérrez ; 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. Valente ; 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 [pi] / 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 ; Appendices : A: Mathematics in performance media ; Mathematics in fiction and poetry.