"Are you trying to tell me that this gadget's got a fourth-dimensional extension?" Paradine demanded. A different sort of geometry from ours wouldn't impress him as being illogical. "So this - thing - bores us, and seems pointless. "Your mind has been conditioned to Euclid," Holloway said. (Similar ideas pop up in Star, Bright, Another New Math, and Tangents.) Probably true and a nice advertisement for mathematics. Numbers and Euclidean geometry) could expand one's mind and abilities is But this story is fun to read and the idea that learningĪlternative mathematical structures (other than the arithmetic of the real He suggests a "non-Euclidean geometry" in which "two and two needn't equalįour". Going on confuses logic, arithmetic, and geometry - for instance - when The purpose of my Website is to discuss mathematics in works of fiction, and math is certainly important to this story, though it is notĭiscussed very convincingly. It was also collected in many other books previously and so there is a good chance you could find it at your library.Īscent of Wonder and you can read the comments that accompany it in
THE MEANING OF THE LAST MIMZY MOVIE ARCHIVE
The new collection is worth the money, but some of you may be looking for a cheaper option.Īs of January 2021, this link to a free archive (kindly recommended by Mad Hatter) was working: If you want to buy a new book with this story in it, your only choice at the moment is the collection The Last Mimzy (previously released as "The Best of Henry Kuttner"). This story originally appeared in Astounding Science-Fiction inġ943. (The film's official site is, and you can read my comments about the film below.) (See "testimonials" below.) And it was the "inspiration" for the 2007 film The Last Mimzy. The story has moved many readers over the years. The title, of course, is a line from the famous nonsense poem " Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. Mimsy Were the Borogoves is a classic Science Fiction story from 1943 by the writing team of Henry Kuttner and Catherine Moore under their pseudonym "Lewis Padgett". Twoīoxes of such toys, in fact, are sent back in time and have a dramatic (non-Euclidean geometries and algebras in which 2+2 is not four).
Toys which guide their children to learn abstract mathematics (eliminating the appendix and shortening their large intestine) and invented a time machine, but they have also invented educational Note: This work of mathematical fiction is recommended by Alex for hardcore fans of science fiction.įar in the future, humans have not only improved their digestive tracts Lewis Padgett (aka Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)
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