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| |image = [[Image:MathGirlEpisode3.jpg|250px]]
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| |caption =Math Girl Episode 3 cover shot<br />Art by Lou Crockett.
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| |name =Math Girl
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| |publisher =IRMACS, SFU
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| |first =''Differentials Attract'' <br>(December 2004)
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| |creator =Lou Crockett, artist, animator, and designer<br>Jesai Jayhmes, actor and director<br>Veselin Jungić, mathematician
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| |spcialty=Super knowledge of mathematics
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| |series=Math Girl
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| '''Math Girl''' is an animated movie [[superhero]] co-created by Lou Crockett, an artist, animator, and designer; Jesai Jayhmes, an actor and director; and Veselin Jungić, a working mathematician. The character made her first appearance in ''Differentials Attract'' (2004). In her normal clothes Math Girl is an ordinary student, a smart girl that wears glasses. When she takes her superpower alter ego, thanks to her superb understanding of mathematics, Math Girl becomes a super heroine. Math Girl operates in '''Calculopolis''', assisted by her sidekick '''Pat Thagoras''' a young man who admires Math Girl, and professorial '''Big Math''', the mayor of Calculopolis. She fights a villain named '''Zero!''', an evil character whose goal is to rule Calculopolis by exploiting people’s ignorance of [[mathematics]].
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| The ambition of the shorts is to accomplish two goals: to use a pop-culture medium to give a new view (or use) of well known mathematical objects and at the same time to enrich the medium itself by introducing mathematics as a subject. Following the medium’s clichés, the stories are based on the fight between ''good'' and ''evil'', where ''good'' is a synonym for mathematical knowledge. The movies might be seen as a benign [[parody]] of both the pop medium and scholarship.
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| ==Publication history==
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| '''Episode 1 – Differentials Attract''' (2004) Math Girl uses her ''linear approximator'' to save her friend Pat Thagoras when he was stuck on ''Square Root Mountain''. The episode illustrates the use of [[linear approximation]] and the [[differential of a function|differential]] of a function. The episode was produced by the Learning and Instructional Development Centre (LIDC) at [[Simon Fraser University]], Burnaby, B.C. Canada.
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| '''Episode 2 – Zero!’s Dis-Continuity''' (2006) When Zero! constructs the ''Sin T Over T Roller Coaster'', Math Girl and Pat Thagoras use their ''epsilon-delta device'' and the [[Limit of a function|limit]] <math>\lim _{t\to 0}\frac{\sin t}{t}=1</math> to patch the hole on the top of the coaster and save the Big Math’s twins from a danger. The episode was produced by the Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematics and Computational Sciences Centre (IRMACS) at Simon Fraser University.
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| '''Episode 3 – Rationalize This!''' (2007) It is [[Pi Day]] in Calculopolis and Big Math is ready to inaugurate the ''Fountain of Pi'' as part of the ''Memorial of the Unknown Mathematician''. Zero! sends his army of zeros to make [[pi]] finally equal 3.14 and to spoil the celebration. Math Girl and Pat use their ''BBP device'' to foil Zero!’s evil plan. (BBP stands for [[Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula]].) The episode was produced by the Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematics and Computational Sciences Centre (IRMACS) at Simon Fraser University.
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgMSgJdr4k0 Episode 1 – Differentials Attract]
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| * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceui-CIQZe4 Episode 2 – Zero!’s Dis-Continuity]
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| * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTomRm23KKs Episode 3 – Rationalize This!]
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| * [http://www.math.sfu.ca/~vjungic/MGCMSNotes.pdf Math Girl Begins, Education Notes, Notes of Canadian Math Society, December, 2007]
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| * [http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/10/16/conway Professor Avatar, Inside Higher Ed, October 16, 2007]
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| * [http://ctv.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070907.wschools07/tech/Technology/techBN/ctv-technology Higher education for the high-tech savvy, The Globe and Mail, September 7, 2007]
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| * [http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2007-1/issue8/ne-mathgirl.html Campus: Math Girl saves the day, The Peak, February 26, 2007]
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| [[Category:Canadian animated films]]
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| [[Category:Mathematics education television series]]
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