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1. Fiction Beyond Words: Music in J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Novels.

Author

Mudura, Diana

Subjects
CONTEMPORARY Christian music, MUSIC in literature
Abstract

J. M. Coetzee's late work exhibits a productive dialogue between fiction and other arts as part of his interest in the possibilities of thinking in mediums other than ordinary language. Focusing particularly on the Jesus novels, this article examines the critical role of music and how Coetzee uses musical forms as literary strategies that open up alternative possibilities of communication and thinking. Revisiting the famous "What is a Classic?" essay and the biographical moment that leads Coetzee to the music of J. S. Bach, I look at how Coetzee writes musically by considering questions of content, form, and technique, and then turn to the representation of music in relation to mathematics. I propose that the interest in music in the Jesus novels is part of his conscious engagement with ordinary language and his inherent desire to transcend it that characterizes the late work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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2. Incendies de Wajdi Mouawad: L'algorithme de Collatz - une « conjecture à résoudre ».

Author

GANCEVICI, Olga

Subjects
FAMILIES, MATHEMATICS, LOGICAL prediction, PHOTOGRAPHY, RADIO programs
Abstract

This essay is aimed at a brief exploration of several intermedial aspects of the play Incendies by contemporary writer and director Wajdi Mouawad, who has shown a notable flexibility across multiple media and whose work often takes thoroughly intermedial turns. His writing joins together several media - text, mathematics, photography, virtual staging -, lying, at the same time, at the foundation of various renditions in other fields: staging, cinematographic adaptation, reading performance, or radio recording. The Collatz conjecture becomes a device for both questioning and mediating between the real life of a family and a land that are harrowed and terrorized by war, on the one hand, and an ultimate solution that proves as dilemmatic as inevitable, on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022

4. Old Roads, New Stories: Downhill Switchbacks Ahead by Rob Carney.

Subjects
MEANING (Philosophy), MATHEMATICS
Abstract

Two poems by Rob Carney are presented. "Some Things Have One Meaning, Some Things Don’t:" First Line: "I do," for instance, is conditional; Last Line: by caring more and minding much less instead. "Failing at Math." First Line: I do all my spatial figuring; Last Line: or always cold like this? It can’t remember.

Published
2017

5. Set Theory Is the Mathematical Science of the Infinite.

Author

SCOTT, AMY LEE

Subjects
SET theory, MATHEMATICS, MATHEMATICAL logic, ADDITION (Mathematics)
Abstract

An essay is presented on set theory. The author describes the uniqueness of an empty set in mathematics which has no elements and its size is zero. The signs denote the value of empty set and are an effort to shape and symbolize the absence. She also explained the use of modular mathematics in offering solution of addition related problem.

Published
2013

9. Chute Francaise.

Author

STERRITT, BROOKS

Subjects
MATHEMATICS
Published
2016

11. Math Without Numbers.

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, NONFICTION
Abstract

A review of the book "Math Without Numbers," by Milo Beckman, is presented.

Published
2020

20. The Best Writing in Mathematics 2017.

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, NONFICTION
Abstract

A review of the book "The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017," edited by Mircea Pitici, is presented.

Published
2017

27. Mathematics as Art.

Author

Burger, Edward B. and Starbird, Michael

Subjects
MATHEMATICS
Abstract

Presents an excerpt related to mathematics as an art from the book "Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz," by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird.

Published
2005

32. Is God a Mathematician?

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Is God a Mathematician?," by Mario Livio.

Published
2008

37. MATH FOR ALL SEASONS (Book Review).

Author

Roback, Dianne, Brown, Jennifer M., Britton, Jason, and Zaleski, Jeff

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, FICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Math for All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles,' by Greg Tang and illustrated by Harry Briggs.

Published
2001

39. The Flying Birds.

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, FICTION, CHILDREN'S literature
Published
2015

45. The Wing Wing Brothers Carnival De Math.

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, FICTION, CHILDREN'S literature
Abstract

A review of the book "The Wing Wing Brothers Carnival De Math," by Ethan Long is presented.

Published
2013

48. Measurement.

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Measurement," by Paul Lockhart.

Published
2012

50. Zero the Hero.

Subjects
MATHEMATICS, FICTION, CHILDREN'S literature
Abstract

A review of the book "Zero the Hero," written by Joan Holub and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld is presented.

Published
2011

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