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  1. The conference was supported in part by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at the University of California in Berkeley.

  2. See “Meeting Statement” on http://www. thalesandfriends.org/.

  3. “Paramathematics” was coined by Thales Friend and conference co-organizer Apostolos Doxiadis.

  4. Interview with Apostolos Doxiadis, http:// www.thalesandfriends.org/.

  5. For an extensive list, see Alex Kasman ’ s “Mathematical Fiction” Web site, http:// math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/ default.html/. The list includes a few works in languages other than English.

  6. See note 2.

  7. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  8. www.math.ucsd.edu/~williams/diaconis/ It.is.a.story.3.pdf

  9. Sarah Tomlin, “What ’ s the plot?”,Nature, vol. 436/4, August, 2005, 622–623.

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  10. Constance Reid,The Search for E T. Bell, Mathematical Association of America, 1996.

  11. Matthew Gurewitsch,The New York Times, September 25, 2005; see also Dennis Overbye ’ s review ofDr. Atomic inThe New York Times, October 18, 2005.

  12. Notices oftheAMS, vol. 50, no. 11 (2003), 1047–1048.

  13. This distinction was first introduced by the computational logician Alan Robinson.

  14. Warren F. Motte,Oulipo: a primer of potential literature, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2004.

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  15. Kantor ’ s account of the meeting, first published inLa quinzaine littéraire, is also posted on the web at www. thalesandfriends.org.

  16. In 2003 and 2004, the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) in Banff, Canada, held workshops in creative writing in mathematics and science; a third is scheduled for June 2006. The first two workshops were organized by Chandler Davis and Marjorie Senechal; in 2006 they will be joined by poet, musician, and philosopher Jan Zwicky, and the director of the Banff Centre Program in Writing and Publishing.

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Senechal, M. Mathematics and narrative at mykonos. The Mathematical Intelligencer 28, 24–33 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987152

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