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|a Mathematics in popular culture
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|b essays on appearances in film, fiction, games, television and other media /
|c edited by Jessica K. Sklar and Elizabeth S. Sklar ; foreword by Keith Devlin.
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|a 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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|a Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS all weave mathematics prominently into their storylines. Less obvious but pivotal references to the subject appear in the blockbuster TV show Lost, the cult movie The Princess Bride, and even Tolstoy's War and Peace. In this collection of … Show Morenew essays, contributors consider the role of math in everything from 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.
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