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Author includes the word(s): Jules Verne
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Round the Moon (1870)
Highly Rated!

Jules Verne

This early science fiction novel about space travel (published originally in French, of course) contains two chapters with explicit (and very nice) mathematical content. In Chapter 4 (A Little Algebra)... (more)

Topsy-turvy (Sans Dessus Dessous) (1889)

Jules Verne

The members of the Gun Club want to use a giant cannon's recoil to change the Earth's rotation axis, so they can exploit the presumed coalfields at the North Pole. An unfortunate side effect is that... (more)

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