MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Probability of Everything (2024)
Sarah Everett
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In this young adult novel, an 11 year-old girl who relies on probability to deal with the world around her must come to grips with the fact that asteroid Amplus-68 has a 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth.

Contributed by Aidan Tompkins

This book was recognized for its quality by the Mathical Book Prize. The writing is a little more advanced and appropriately unpredictable for a story about forecasting the end of the world. Kemi correctly explains the multiplication rule to calculate probability, but it never goes much deeper than that; she admits that the Monty Hall Problem is hard to wrap her head around. Since the protagonist is neither a genius nor a prodigy, 11-year old Kemi has a few statements that seem to misunderstand probability, but it was more fun than irritating. The mathematical content was definitely geared towards educating children, yet I still learned that Gerolamo Cardano is called the father of probability!

(quoted from Probability of Everything)

“I love you more than equal signs.”

(quoted from Probability of Everything)

"I loved probability because of the story of how I was born."

(quoted from Probability of Everything)

“The odds of being born on Leap Day—1 IN 1,461”

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  7. Clara Thorn, The Witch That Was Found by Don Jones
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  10. Very in Pieces by Megan Frazer Blakemore
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Mathematical Content:
3/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
4/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreYoung Adult,
MotifFemale Mathematicians, Future Prediction through Math,
TopicProbability/Statistics,
MediumNovels,

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.

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