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1) Math curse
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When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
4) Anathem
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Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she's the only person around with a superpower...until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people's minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips....
10) No fair!
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Two children play several games of chance trying to figure out what is mathematically fair.
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Math wiz Violet Summers tries to make sense of her life through probability equations and logic, but none of the equations add up when her beloved dad leaves their family. Neither does it make sense when her best friend McKenzie is cast in a minor role in the school play and twelve-year-old Violet gets a leading part, directing her to try to solve the unpredictability of life.
17) Go, Fractions!
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The Fractions team is coached by a math teacher who helps them learn while they play to become "number one" in soccer.
18) Null set
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Cas Russel has decided to Fight Crime™. She definitely doesn't have a cape, and she's working on the whole morals issue, but she does have a real-life superpower: with her extraordinary mathematical ability, she can disarm bombs or outshoot an army. But Cas's own power also has a history, one she can't remember - or control. One that's creeping into her mind and fracturing her sanity... just when she's gotten herself on the hit list of every crime...