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comics and mathematics: 1) mathematics as a background

With math, my other passion is comics. Like every year in late January with the festival of Angouleme, the comic is to honor, I thought it was a good time to start talking about comics and mathematics.
In some albums, the mathematical world is at the bottom of the story, in others it is rather the form it provides openings.
For now, I look in my library albums whose story inspired by the mathematical and mathematicians. The list will not be exhaustive, but feel free to notify me of books I'd forgotten.
humor
The obsession of the learned Cosine 1899 (Christopher)

Christopher was a recognized scholar of his time and spent his free time doing small Miquet. His learned Cosine would be inspired by the mathematician Jacques Hadamard and legendary entertainment, or by Henri Poincare. His sense of adventure will not exceed the limits of Paris.

Quadratino 1910 (Antonio Rubino)

Heroes seven short stories, quadratic, a hero to the square head, made a mistake in his head every aventureet systematically to another figure. Fortunately, Mom Geometry, grandmother and aunt Mathematics Algebra arrange everything to end.

The Shadocks 1968 (Jacques Rouxel)
heroes well known television, Shadocks multiply references to logic and mathematics, even if it's for better shape.

at math 1962 (Francis)

resumption of a mini story Spirou, this short comic story of a boy not very intelligent, by bumping, acquires at math and became a genius during his or her hump reabsorbed. Fun.

Cat (Geluck)

Many gags on logic and mathematics that have even led to a study by Daniel Justen.

Exploitable for a course.

Archibald Higgins (JP Small)

Many educational comics that bring humor to math questions. I suggested this source to students of OFWs, who have found material for crafts and reflection. All the bands here is freely available .

Fever Urbicande 1990 (Schuiten Peeters)

A strange illness hits the town Urbicande. A cube placed carelessly on the desk begins to grow and multiply after an inexorable logic, is gradually transforming into a giant octahedron, by the method of the Abbe Rene Just Haüy.

This method can probably lead to years of research in the first S in order to address the consequences.
I could not help but do a little DIY. This comic book invites us to do so much ...
With plastic cubes (called ice cubes) of 3 different colors, and the dough to fix, we can construct the object to the first generation

then the second,

the third.

I have enough cubes to the fourth .

can then ask the question of how many cubic nécéessaires the n ^ th generation, and the number of end of dough needed to be fixed (or at the surface to be painted).

History of mathematics and mathematicians

theorem Morcom (Peeters, Goffin)

In a construction of history that reminds Citizen Kane, the reporter discovers gradually Secrets of a recently deceased mathematical genius who helped decipher the Enigma secret messages. A biography disguised by Alan Turing.


Logicomix (by Apostolos Doxiadis K., Christos Papadimitriou, Alekos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna)

After Uncle Petros and Goldbach's conjecture, the author continues his theme of Doxiadis the search for mathematical truth at the gates of madness. A reading of the history of the crisis of logic in the early 20th century, doubts mathematicians, and the hero, Bertrand Russell, shown first as a man, not just a pure mind, capable of making mistakes in his life. Setting the abyss showing the authors questioning the story they're telling, with their questions and doubts, brings even more depth to this story. Philosophical ideas soar high, often approaching the heroes of vertigo. A beautiful presentation of what happens in mathematics in the early 20th century ...
My bookseller was amazed to have devoured a book about mathematics.

Hypatia 2010 (Pécout, Greiner)

the beautiful Hypatia is now famous for the film released last year. A band that takes the tragic fate of this woman of science. Of moments, as when, resuming the work of Ptolemy, she built an astrolabe.



The math appeared in many successful comics dealing with the child or the world of education: the small Spirou, Titeuf or Kid Paddle or Profs.

Next time, I'll probably level mathematics as the inspiration of the shape and structure.