Fictional Creations

The Forge Web Creations

A Tangible Environment for Animations Creations

Storytelling is an essential activity in the life of children. By listening or sharing their stories and ideasthey give meaning to their world and practice their communication skill. Even though the compute were already present in the infantile world, there is to get between the software developed for theirs and the ones that really give voice for this little uses. This paper presents the React...

Fictional Women in Mathematics

This article will argue that the situation for female mathematicians in fiction has improved, but that there is still cause for concern. You may wonder why you should care about this at all since these fictional women are (by definition) not real and therefore unlikely to be dues paying members of the AWM! With this in mind, in addition to providing examples of female mathematicians in literatu...

Mirroring Fictional Others

Fictional Planet Ballardia

The Rock Cycle is a useful pedagogical device. Science-fiction novelist James G. Ballard published a colorful description of a nameless fictional world in 1957 that has an artificially closed Rock Cycle. Were such an anthropogenic cycle instigated for Earth, it would be consistent with James Hutton’s viewpoint on the Earth as a self-repairing machine without an endogenetic end to planetary Geol...