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From Poland to "Petersburg": The Banach-Tarski Paradox in Bely's Modernist Novel
Noah Giansiracusa, Anastasia Vasilyeva
Andrei Bely's novel "Petersburg," first published in 1913, was declared by Vladimir Nabokov one of the four greatest masterpieces of 20th-century prose. The Banach-Tarski Paradox,…
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Geometry in the Courtroom
Noah Giansiracusa, Cameron Ricciardi
There has been a recent media blitz on a cohort of mathematicians valiantly working to fix America's democratic system by combatting gerrymandering with geometry. While statistics…
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Mathematical Symbolism in a Russian Literary Masterpiece
Noah Giansiracusa, Anastasia Vasilyeva
Andrei Bely's modernist novel "Petersburg," first published in 1913, is considered a pinnacle of the Symbolist movement. Nabokov famously ranked it as one of the four greatest mast…