MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Proof Geometric Construction Can Solve All Love Affairs (2017)
Takahashi Manbou (lyricist) / Ane Manbou (illustrator)
Highly Rated!

This is not a short story or novel or movie, it is a music video by Japanese musician "Manbo-p" (featuring manga-style illustrations by his sister). As the title implies, it is a romance in which a boy wins the love of his longtime crush using geometry (mostly straight edge and compass constructions).

I am not certain whether I am listing this entry in my "Mathematical Fiction" database properly, or even whether I should be listing it at all. It certainly does not fit easily into my current categorization scheme. If you have corrections or an opinion about whether this entry should be deleted from the database, please let me know. Thanks to Zin Li for bringing it to my attention.

Contributed by John R. Drum

I say definitely keep the music video on the page. I found it because of your posting and loved it. I also think it might make a good video for interested high school students as it explains fairly well basic constructions.

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  1. The Love Formula by Giulia Clerici / Giulia Pasqualini
  2. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things by Lev Grossman
  3. The Manga Guide to Statistics by Shin Takahashi
  4. The Manga Guide to Regression Analysis by Shin Takahashi / Iroha Inoue
  5. Hajime's Algorithm by Mihara Kazuto
  6. The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra by Shin Takahashi / Iroha Inoue
  7. The Amazing Spider-Man (Issues 555-557) by Zeb Wells (writer) / Chris Bachalo (penciller)
  8. Fermat's Cuisine [Fermat no Ryori] by Yugo Kobayashi
  9. Let's Play With Numbers [Suuji de Asobo] by Murako Kinuta
  10. The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss by Amy Noelle Parks
Ratings for Proof Geometric Construction Can Solve All Love Affairs:
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Mathematical Content:
4/5 (6 votes)
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Literary Quality:
3.17/5 (6 votes)
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Categories:
GenreHumorous, Romance, Young Adult,
MotifMusic, Romance,
TopicGeometry/Topology/Trigonometry,
MediumTelevision Series or Episode, Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga,

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)