{"id":27240,"date":"2023-04-15T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27240"},"modified":"2023-04-14T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T19:40:40","slug":"april-2023-e-meeting-post-3-of-7-presentation-mathematical-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27240","title":{"rendered":"APRIL 2023 E-MEETING, POST 3 OF 7: Presentation\u2014Mathematical Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BracketCard03April-2023e-Meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BracketCard03April-2023e-Meeting-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BracketCard03April-2023e-Meeting-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BracketCard03April-2023e-Meeting-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BracketCard03April-2023e-Meeting-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BracketCard03April-2023e-Meeting.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>This is Post 3 of 7.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>6) MATHEMATICAL FICTION: IS MAGIC JUST ANOTHER SOURCE OF MATH?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ZOOM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ZOOM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ZOOM.png 400w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ZOOM-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a>We continue on ZOOM with an exploration of \u201cMathematical Fiction,\u201d described as a genre of creative fiction in which mathematics and mathematicians play an important role. Edwin A. Abbott\u2019s <em>Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions<\/em> is, perhaps, the most familiar example.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Flatland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Flatland-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Flatland-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Flatland-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Flatland-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Flatland-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Flatland.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathematical Fiction might not be popular but has been around since 1884,\u201d says Kofi Oduro, this segment\u2019s presenter. \u201cWe will discuss how this can be relevant in many sci-fi\/fantasy-based worlds and check some work on databases that keep track of it. How do we conceive such a world and what differences can we use to alter it from our world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those not equipped to join our ZOOM discussion may contribute, nonetheless, by using this post\u2019s \u201cLeave a Comment\u201d feature to ask questions and type in commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Post 3 of 7. 6) MATHEMATICAL FICTION: IS MAGIC JUST ANOTHER SOURCE OF MATH? We continue on ZOOM with an exploration of \u201cMathematical Fiction,\u201d described as a genre of creative fiction in which mathematics and mathematicians play an important role. Edwin A. Abbott\u2019s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is, perhaps, the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">APRIL 2023 E-MEETING, POST 3 OF 7: Presentation\u2014Mathematical Fiction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27243,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27240\/revisions\/27243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}