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"The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973).
"The Library of Babel" was originally written by Borges in 1941, [3] based on an earlier essay he had published in 1939 while working as a librarian. [4] It concerns a fictional library containing every possible book of a certain fixed length, over a 25-symbol alphabet (which, including spacing and punctuation, is sufficient for the Spanish language). [5]
Mathematical fiction is a genre of creative fictional work in which mathematics and mathematicians play important roles. The form and the medium of the works are not important. The genre may include poems, short stories, novels or plays; comic books; films, videos, or audios.
Connected Mathematics is a comprehensive mathematics program intended for U.S. students in grades 6–8.The curriculum design, text materials for students, and supporting resources for teachers were created and have been progressively refined by the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) at Michigan State University with advice and contributions from many mathematics teachers, curriculum ...
The problem became notorious when American novelist and short story writer Ben Ames Williams modified an older problem and included it in a story, "Coconuts", in the October 9, 1926, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. [2] Here is how the problem was stated by Williams [3] (condensed and paraphrased): Five men and a monkey were shipwrecked on ...
Moreover, Murakami wrote a short story entitled "Scheherazade", published in The New Yorker in October 2014 [23] and previously compiled in his short story collection Men Without Women, published in April 2014. Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic is a Japanese fantasy manga written by Shinobu Ohtaka which borrows several elements from the Nights. Each ...
These mathematical fiction novels and other fiction books have some elements of mathematics, or feature real or fictional mathematicians. Frequently these books use narrative devices to explore mathematical topics.
A slightly expanded version of the story was published in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The collection was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana adapted the story for the 2005 film.