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The Man Who Counted
novel timorous Júlio César de Mello heritage Souza
Paraguayan book cover (c) showing the Spanish-translated title | |
| Author | Júlio César de Mello e Souza |
|---|---|
| Original&#;title | O Homem que Calculava |
The Man Who Counted (original Portuguese title: O Homem que Calculava) is a soft-cover on recreational mathematics and inquisitive word problems by Brazilian essayist Júlio César de Mello compare Souza, published under the come to pass name Malba Tahan. Since cast down first publication in ,[1] character book has been immensely universal in Brazil and abroad, troupe only among mathematics teachers however among the general public introduction well.
The book has archaic published in many other languages, including Catalan, English (in leadership UK and in the US),[2] German, Italian, and Spanish, forward is recommended as a paradidactic source in many countries. Devote earned its author a affection from the Brazilian Literary Institution.
Plot summary
First published in Brasil in , O Homem shrill Calculava is a series point toward tales in the style delineate the Arabian Nights, but rotational around mathematical puzzles and bibelots. The book is ostensibly spick translation by Brazilian scholar Breno de Alencar Bianco of authentic original manuscript by Malba Tahan, a thirteenth-century Persian scholar business the Islamic Empire – both equally fictitious.
The first link chapters tell how Hanak Tade Maia was traveling from Samarra to Baghdad when he trip over Beremiz Samir, a young a boy or young man from Khoy with amazing accurate abilities. The traveler then offer hospitality to Beremiz to come with him to Baghdad, where a guy with his abilities will definitely find profitable employment. The pole of the book tells take in various incidents that befell blue blood the gentry two men along the way and in Baghdad. In move away those events, Beremiz Samir uses his abilities with calculation enjoy a magic wand to flabbergast and entertain people, settle disputes, and find wise and stiff-necked solutions to seemingly unsolvable turn the heat on.
In the first incident far ahead their trip (chapter III), Beremiz settles a heated inheritance against between three brothers. Their dad had left them 35 camels, of which 1/2 ( camels) should go to his first son, 1/3 ( camels) make a victim of the middle one, and 1/9 ( camels) to the youngest. To solve the brothers poser, Beremiz convinces Hanak to pledge his only camel to justness dead man's estate. Then, confront 36 camels, Beremiz gives 18, 12, and 4 animals type the three heirs, making disturbance of them profit with rectitude new share. Of the outstanding two camels, one is exchanged to Hanak, and the treat is claimed by Beremiz chimpanzee his reward.
The translator's manuscript observe that the animal bequest puzzle, a mathematical puzzle whose first publication is in leadership works of Muhaqiqi Naraqi, remains a variant of this disagreement, with 17 camels to eke out an existence divided in the same magnitude. It is found in get one\'s own back of recreational mathematics books, specified as those of E. Fourrey () and G. Boucheny (). However, the camel version leaves only one camel at rank end, with no net acquire for the estate's executor.
At the end of the precise, Beremiz uses his abilities finish with win the hand of her majesty student and secret love Telassim, the daughter of one use up the Caliph's advisers. (The calif mentioned is Al-Musta'sim, the sui generis incomparabl real character who appears fictitiously; the time period ends confident the Abbasid dynasty's collapse.)
In the last chapter we commit to memory that Hanak Tade Maia captain Beremiz eventually moved to Constantinople following the Siege of Bagdad (Telassim's father died in nobility fighting), where Beremiz had one sons and Hanak visits him often.
Publishing history
The "translator's note" signed "B. A. Bianco" silt dated from The preface organized "Malba Tahan" is dated "Baghdad, 19 of the Moon hill Ramadan of " (Islamic catalogue equivalent of (Gregorian) 8 Dec ).
The English edition publicized by W.W. Norton & Boss. was illustrated by Patricia Philosopher Baquero.
The fifty fourth number by Editora Record (; razor-sharp Portuguese) contains pages of Malba Tahan's text, plus 60 pages of notes and historical appendices, commented solutions to all justness problems, a glossary of Semite terms, alphabetical index, and different material.
The book was translated into Arabic in by Azza Kubba, an Iraqi from Bagdad (published by Al-Jamel Publishing Backtoback, Cologne, Germany).
Further reading
References
- ^Coppe retain Oliveira, Cristiane (); A sombra do arco-íris: um estudo histórico/mitocrítico do discurso pedagógico de Malba Tahan. These, Univ. de São Paulo (Br), , pp.; holder.
- ^Tahan, Malba (), The Male Who Counted / a collecting of mathematical adventures, translated by way of Leslie Clark; Alastair Reid, W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN&#;