What Does the Number Devil Teach About Spherical Geometry?

[marcus]

http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3342
The Forgotten Night: The Number Devil Explores Spherical Geometry
Marissa L. Weichman
10 pages, 15 figures, submitted to American Journal of Physics
(Submitted on 22 Jun 2007)

"This is a missing chapter from Hans Magnus Enzensberger's mathematical adventure The Number Devil (Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1997). In the book, a math-hating boy named Robert is visited in his dreams by the clever Number Devil, who teaches him to love all things numerical. However, we all forget our dreams from time to time. Here is one adventure that Enzensberger overlooked, where the Number Devil introduces Robert to geometry not-of-Euclid, great circles, parallel transport, the pendulum of Foucault, and the genius of Euler."

Anybody know the book by Magnus Enzenberger?

Is it good?

what about the proposed additional chapter here?

 

[ice109]

looks like its for kids

 

[Math Is Hard]

I have not heard of it before. There are some reviews of it on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805062998/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[mongoose]

yeah, i think it's a kids book

check out some of dunham's books if you like reading about math in a non textbook sort of way