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Complex numbers are all fun and games until someone loses an i. That's when things get real. Minkowski's question-mark function: A function with an unusual notation and possessing unusual fractal properties. Monty Hall problem: The counter-intuitive way to prevail when playing Let's Make a Deal. Moving sofa problem
A Wrinkle in Time. A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, [2] the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. [3][a] The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles ...
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels approximately 802,701 years into the future. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and ...
These books for teens, by literary legends like Harper Lee and J.D. Salinger and modern novelists including J.K Rowling and John Green, will show your teenager the best that being a bookworm has ...
A cop from the year 2088 (Abbott) is transported back to 1988 while pursuing a criminal attempting to flee in a time machine, and enlists the aid of his legendary great-grandfather (Maher) in pursuing the crook. 1989. Field of Dreams. Phil Alden Robinson.
Time Machine is a series of children's novels published in the United States by Bantam Books from 1984 to 1989, similar to their more successful Choose Your Own Adventure line of "interactive" novels. Each book was written in the second person, with the reader choosing how the story should progress. They were designed by Byron Preiss Visual ...
Weena is a fictional character in the novel The Time Machine, written by H. G. Wells in 1895 on the concept of time travel. In the story, an unnamed time traveler travels to 802,701 A.D. using his time machine, [1] to find that humans have evolved into two species: the Eloi, the leisure class; and the Morlocks, the working class. [2]
The Time Machine is a 2002 American post-apocalyptic science fiction action adventure film loosely adapted by John Logan from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the screenplay of the 1960 film of the same name by David Duncan. Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer and Simon Wells, the great-grandson of the original author ...