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BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Volume 25, 2010 - Issue 2: Images of mathematics and mathematicians
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From Sylvia Plath's The bell jar to the Bad Sex Award: a partial account of the uses of mathematics in fiction

Tony Mann University of Greenwich
Pages 58-66 | Published online: 08 Jun 2010
 
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1 Information from William Boulanger, quoted by Susan Stepney in ‘Impure Mathematics’, <http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/polly.htm>, accessed 4 January 2010.

2 <http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex.html>, accessed 3 January 2009.

3 Quoted in a letter from Ron Grant, History Today, 59(12) (2009), 64.

4 Richard Flanagan, postscript to Wanting <http://www.richardflanaganwanting.com.au/notes.aspx>, consulted 29 December 2009, and comments on a BBC radio interview in 2002.

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