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Professor Conundrum Mysteries! (2008)
Bill Streifer
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Contributed by Bill Streifer

My book, Professor Conundrum Mysteries!...combines math education (non-fiction) and historical fiction.

The book consists of five stories that take place during important events in 20th century U.S. history: The Vietnam War, the Great Depression, WWII in Europe. It also contains a murder mystery that takes place on the Harvard campus, and a comparison of ancient china and modern Boston with respect to mathematics, and the treatment of the elderly. Five chapters (the first chapter of each story) can be read for FREE on the site!

Bill Streifer

More information about this work can be found at www.profconundrum.com.
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Categories:
GenreHistorical Fiction, Mystery, Didactic,
MotifAcademia, War,
Topic
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.

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)