MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Astor Place Barber (2023)
Audrey Nasar
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Contributed by Allan Goldberg

A short piece that employs a humorous McGuffin to introduce the Barber's Paradox.

Both frequent site contributor Dr. Allan Goldberg and the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics think this is an example of "mathematical fiction", and so I will include an entry for it here in my database (even if I'm not sure I consider it to be one).

Citation: Audrey Nasar, "Astor Place Barber," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 13 Issue 1 (January 2023), pages 316-317

More information about this work can be found at scholarship.claremont.edu.
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Categories:
GenreHumorous,
Motif
TopicLogic/Set Theory,
MediumShort Stories, Available Free Online,

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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.

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