Math 5: Numb3rs in Lett3rs & Fi1ms

(Mathematics in Literature and Cinema)

Instructor: Mark Kozek, email: mark.r.kozek {at} dartmouth.edu.

THE COURSE READER:

01- Mathematics Takes Center Stage by Robert Osserman

02- Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges

03- The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges

04- Euclid’s Poetics by Apostolos Doxiades

05- The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges

06- The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

07- The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

11- from Mist by Miguel de Unamuno

08- The Extraordinary Hotel by Stanislaw Lem

11.5- Book Review: Logicomix by Judith Roitman

12- The Adventure of the Dancing Men by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13- The Gold Bug by Edgar Allen Poe

14- Mathematical Femmes Fatales by Nicholas Riech

15- Smart Girls by Sharon Alker and Roberta Davidson

16- Alice in Numb3rland by Alice Silverberg

17- Counting with the Sharks by Matt Lane

18- Introduction to Duel at Dawn by Amir Alexander

19- Conclusion to Duel at Dawn by Amir Alexander

20- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman

21- The Rise of Narrative Non-Fiction by Simon Singh

22- Alan Turing by KG Valente

23- Being Julia Robinson’s Sister by Constance Reid

25- Squaring the Circle is No Piece of Pi by Bruce Watson

26- Capturing the Unicorn by Richard Preston

27- The Center of the Universe by Alex Kasman

28- Parable of the Cave by Plato

29- Flatland in Popular Culture by Lila Marz Harper

30- And He Built a Crooked House by Robert Heinlein

31- The Disk by Jorge Luis Borges

32- A Subway Named Moebius by A. J. Deutsch

33- A. Botts and the Moebius Strip by William Upson

34- The No Sided Professor by Martin Gardner

INSTRUCTOR: Mark Kozek, Kemeny 311, email: mark.r.kozek {at} dartmouth.edu.