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But when I turned the handle on the door, suddenly the buzzing went crazy. I slapped my hands over my ears, when I should have jerked the door shut. It flew open, and I was face-to-face with the Weierstrass function. It was the ugliest function I could imagine, with kinks, and kinks on kinks and kinks on those. And it was shrieking in its buzz-like way, vibrating all over like a plucked string. I stood there, frozen for just a second, and then I was sprinting after the others, with the wild frantic buzzing right behind me.''
From the twisted imagination of best-selling author Colin Adams (Zombies & Calculus, The Knot Book) comes this tale of sixteen-year-old Kallie trying to escape death at the hands of the exhibits in a mathematics museum. Kallie crosses paths with Carl Gauss, Bertrand Russell, Sophie Germain, G. H. Hardy, and John von Neumann, as she tries to save herself, her dad, and his colleague Maria from the deadly Hairy Ball theorem, the harrowing Hilbert Hotel, the bisecting Ham Sandwich machine, and a variety of other mathematical menaces. It's a wild romp through a mathematical bestiary featuring the bizarre, the exotic, and the counterintuitive. You'll never think of math the same way again.
Contents
A story to tell
The hotel
The hairy ball
Let's make a deal
The barber
The Hilbert curve
The prime shop
The Wierstrass function
A ham sandwich
Monty Hall redux
The salesman
Hilbert hotel redux
On principle
Ellie
The mountain
On the surface
A journey
A random reunion
An apology
The mathemagician
The sphere
The hypothesis
The cipher
Appendices: More on Chapter 1 A story to tell
More on Chapter 2 The hotel
More on Chapter 3 The hairy ball
More on Chapter 4 Let's make a deal
More on Chapter 5 The barber shop
More on Chapter 6 The Hilbert curve
More on Chapter 7 The prime shop
More on Chapter 8 The Wierstrass function
More on Chapter 9 A ham sandwich
More on Chapter 10 The Monty Hall redux
More on Chapter 11 The salesman
More on Chapter 12 The Hilbert hotel redux
More on Chapter 13 On principle
More on Chapter 14 Ellie
More on Chapter 15 The mountain
More on Chapter 16 on the surface
More on Chapter 17 A journey
More on Chapter 18 A random reunion
More on Chapter 19 An apology
More on Chapter 20 The mathemagician
More on Chapter 21 The sphere
More on Chapter 22 The hypothesis
More on Chapter 23 The cipher
Index
