{"id":27477,"date":"2023-05-13T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27477"},"modified":"2023-05-12T22:43:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T02:43:44","slug":"may-2023-e-meeting-post-2-of-6-mathematical-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27477","title":{"rendered":"MAY 2023 E-MEETING, POST 2 of 6: Mathematical Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>6) MATHEMATICAL FICTION; IS MAGIC JUST ANOTHER SOURCE OF MATH?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/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 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions<\/em> is, perhaps, the most familiar example.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mathematical 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

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.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 familiar example. Mathematical Fiction might not … Continue reading MAY 2023 E-MEETING, POST 2 of 6: Mathematical Fiction<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27477","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\/27477","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=27477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27480,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions\/27480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}