First Date of Publication
Jan, 1996
Original Source
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
Additional Publication Information
Issue 13
Medium
Short Story
Original Language
English
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Summary: A Socratic dialogue where a professor tries to help his student compute the sum of the first N whole numbers.
Story Tag Line: [SOCRATES] Great! Now, what is the sum of the first N whole numbers?
[BOY] (After a pause) What’ s this N? N is not a number
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