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Alethiography
Sometimes personal, sometimes a bit about science or math or politics or whatever.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Bait
This month's
Mathematics Magazine (Vol 82, No 4)
has an article featuring
a familiar university
game theory
probability distribution functions
"To Buy or Not to Buy: The Screamin' Demon Ticket Game" by Frederick Chen and Alexander Kays
(This journal assumes undergraduate math knowledge.)
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Holes
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Louis Sachar
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Ann Brashares
A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition
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Stephen Hawking
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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J.K. Rowling
The Catcher in the Rye
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J.D. Salinger
Catch-22
by
Joseph Heller
Graceling
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Kristin Cashore
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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John Gray
Artemis Fowl
by
Eoin Colfer
Bud, Not Buddy
by
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
by
Stieg Larsson
A Little Princess
by
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Old Man's War
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John Scalzi
A Fire Upon the Deep
by
Vernor Vinge
The Kindgom on the Waves
by
M.T. Anderson
Mere Christianity
by
C.S. Lewis
Little House in the Big Woods
by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Golden Compass
by
Philip Pullman
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
by
E.L. Konigsburg
The Magicians
by
Lev Grossman
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