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Actuarial / The Paradox Paradox (2010) |
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These two extremely short stories by Mauro, part of his thesis project which consisted entirely of original works of mathematical fiction, appeared in the December 2010 issue of Prime Number Magazine.
Actuarial... (more) |
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Continuity (1999) |
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This short story cleverly uses the epsilon-delta definition of continuity of a function to discuss the changing self-esteem of a character over time. After briefly recalling the rigorous definition, it... (more) |
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Fractions (2011) |
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A math teacher realizes that the father of one of his students is a man with whom he has had an anonymous sexual relationship. There is some discussion of math education in general, and about hypothetical... (more) |
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The Last Theorem (2008) |
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A depressed music professor ponders Fermat's Last Theorem and the implications of its proof by Andrew Wiles.
Like many of Mauro's other stories, this one is very well written, focusing not so much on... (more) |
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Long Division (2010) |
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A very short story in which a hypochondriacal boy confuses the long division which he is learning in school with the cell division in the cancer that killed his grandmother. The boy's mother responds... (more) |
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The Trachtenberg Speed System (2014) |
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Realizing that he is likely to die there, Jakow Trachtenberg fantasizes that the method of mental computation that he has created while at a Nazi concentration camp will live on beyond him. A young guard... (more) |
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Twenty-seven Uses for Imaginary Numbers (2009) |
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A teenage boy's discovery of the joys of Euler's formula coincides with the awakening of his homosexual desires. The author's mathematical understanding is very good, and the story reminded me of young... (more) |
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Zero (2009) |
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An awkward, middle-aged math teacher stumbles (quite literally) into a sexual relationship with an unusual young woman.
The character occasionally thinks in mathematical terms. Towards the beginning,... (more) |
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