![]() ![]() Hueffer), involves fourth-dimensional beings, and deduces why the main action of Yann Martel’s “ Life of Pi” takes 227 days: That number can be rejiggered into the fraction 22/7, which when divided out yields an answer very close to pi. She offers an especially acute and extended analysis of the two-dimensional world of Edwin Abbott’s “ Flatland,” mentions that “ The Inheritors,” a science fiction novel by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (writing as Ford M. ![]() In the book’s final third, Hart examines the use of math in Herman Melville’s “ Moby-Dick,” George Eliot’s “ Daniel Deronda,” Jonathan Swift’s “ Gulliver’s Travels” and the works of James Joyce. ![]()
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