MathFiction: Visitors from Oz : The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman (Martin Gardner)

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Visitors from Oz : The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman (1999)

Martin Gardner
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You wouldn't believe it, but the famous popular math writer produced a sequel to the Oz books in which Dorothy travels to New York City through a Klein bottle (built out of two Mobius strips by the same fellow who built the Tin Man). I have not read the book, but it apparently involves a mathematical puzzle of some sort.

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Ratings for Visitors from Oz : The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman:

Ratings

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Mathematical Content:
4/5 (1 votes)

Literary Quality:
2/5 (1 votes)

Categories:

Genre	Humorous, Fantasy,
Motif	Mobius Strip/Nonorientability,
Topic	Geometry/Topology/Trigonometry,
Medium	Novels,

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