The Frog Who Loved Mathematics

by Faiz Kermani | Children's Books |
ISBN: 1784624098 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Faizy on 9/17/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by Faizy on Thursday, September 17, 2015
What happens when the most brilliant mathematician of all time turns out to be a frog?

Concealed beneath mud and slime,
Lay a brilliant mind.
Bobbul may have not been charismatic,
But she had mastered mathematics

Journal Entry 2 by linguistkris at Solingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Saturday, September 26, 2015
Thank you so much, Faizy, for your latest work, and for making it a double feature!

Journal Entry 3 by linguistkris at Solingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Monday, September 28, 2015
This really was not what I expected! For some reason, I had envisioned more of a picture book; not that the 10 pages of text would take a "grown up" reader very long either, but the story was different from what I had thought.
Also, I was rather surprised to find the story wasn't very much about frogs (which I adore: I used to always stalk them at the bottom of the garden, and give them kisses; unfortunately no princes ever came from it ;)). Nor is it really about Mathematics, and the nature of Montblanc's theorem is never revealed.
Instead, The Frog Who is a pretty accurate introduction to academic publishing and what should be good practice concerning quoting, citing or crediting your co-workers. I can't remember if I ever read another children's book about intellectual property, so this is definitely novel and outstanding!

I enjoyed the message and the prose, but as an older reader, I felt a few things were missing from the story. What is Bobbul's back story? Why is she such a great mathematician? What was she doing in the biology lab? (My initial instinct is of course to come up with a B-movie plot and make her math genius the result of some clandestine experiment... :p) Or maybe there is an environmental subtext about animal testing? And why didn't Montblanc get in trouble with the biologists for losing her?
So clearly, the story is quite thought-provoking, but I would have preferred it with a little more detail.

As for the illustrations: It's a little unfortunate that the front cover illustration has turned out somewhat pixelated (probably by some scaling process?), but the illustrations on the back cover and inside are all perfectly fine. I especially enjoyed the mysterious formula itself -- it's great fun to have a closer look and discover the hidden words, sketches ...and flies! ;)

I will pass this around locally and get a few more journal entries and/or reviews elsewhere.

Journal Entry 4 by linguistkris at Hilden, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Monday, September 28, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (9/29/2015 UTC) at Hilden, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany

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Let's see if I can't find this another reviewer or two!

Journal Entry 5 by dugoengche at Hilden, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Tuesday, September 29, 2015
this frog jumped right into my bag - let's hope, I will soon find the time to read it.

Released 7 yrs ago (5/28/2016 UTC) at OBCZ Oase in der Färberei in Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany

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Journal Entry 7 by lesealles at Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Saturday, May 28, 2016
Seit meiner Schulzeit habe ich keine fremdsprachigen Bücher mehr gelesen- ich glaube nicht, das ich jetzt damit wieder anfange. Aber ich habe es mal für meine Tochter mitgenommen.
Vielleicht darf es mich später mal in den Urlaub begleiten.

Journal Entry 8 by lesealles at Nordpark in Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Saturday, May 13, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (5/13/2017 UTC) at Nordpark in Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany

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Liebes Buch,
dir wünsche ich eine gute Reise und hoffe, das ich bald wieder was von dir höre.


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