Denis Bell

A Mathematical Tour introduces readers to a selection of mathematical topics chosen for their centrality, importance, historical significance, and intrinsic appeal and beauty. The book is written to be accessible and interesting to readers with a good grounding in high school level mathematics and a keen sense of intellectual curiosity. Each chapter includes a short history of the topic, statements and discussion of important results, illustrations, user-friendly exercises, and suggestions for further reading. This book is intended to be read for pleasure but could also be used for a Topics course in Mathematics or as a supplementary text in a History of Mathematics course.Featurescontains a selection of accessible mathematical topicsexercises that elucidate, and sometimes enlarge on, the topicssuitable for readers with knowledge of high school mathematics

A Mathematical Tour introduces readers to a selection of mathematical topics chosen for their centrality, importance, historical significance, and intrinsic appeal and beauty. The book is written to be accessible and interesting to readers with a good grounding in high school level mathematics and a keen sense of intellectual curiosity. Each chapter includes a short history of the topic, statements and discussion of important results, illustrations, user-friendly exercises, and suggestions for further reading. This book is intended to be read for pleasure but could also be used for a Topics course in Mathematics or as a supplementary text in a History of Mathematics course.Featurescontains a selection of accessible mathematical topicsexercises that elucidate, and sometimes enlarge on, the topicssuitable for readers with knowledge of high school mathematics

Denis Bell's collection of short fiction A Box of Dreams centers itself in the tradition ofSpoonRiver Anthology (minus the tomb- stones) and Winesburg, Ohio. A Box of Dreams is dark without a trace of cynicism: it invites empathy for even the least attractive of the characters; these protagonists commonly suffer from mangled memories, rightful guilt, and an inability to distinguish between delusion and reality, between past and present. The stories tease and tantalize, truth glimmers between the lines. Louise Freshman Brown's gorgeous images are haunting illuminations. -Miriam N. Kotzin, author, Country Music, Spuyten Duyvil Press "Denis Bell and flash fiction represent a marriage made in Heaven. The two dozen short works in his collection, A Box of Dreams, show him working at the top of his game. In each, the reader's mind is taken for a weird, wonderful walk that's by turns wryly humorous and darkly intriguing. Louise Brown's illustrations lend just the right atmosphere for an absorbing read." -Paul Blaney, Writer in Residence, Rutgers University, author, The Anchoress "Each piece in Denis Bell's A Box of Dreams is a work of magic that moves steadily along, pulling you in, and not letting you go... The stories are by turns haunting, heartbreaking and funny, and they never fail to surprise... Blending the real with the surreal, these stories, more than anything else, get to the heart of our humanity, our vulnerabilities, and they do so in a way that represents the best in flash fiction." -Dennis Pahl, Long Island University, Editor for Confrontation Magazine

"Denis Bell's stories are short only in length; in insight, vision, humor and style they have a farseeing distance and depth that will keep you wedded to the page, either laughing, marveling, or scratching your head."-David L. Robbins, author, War of the Rats"A thought-provoking collection of flashes and longer stories: poignant, strange, humorous and humane. A Box of Dreams should be opened by all."-Peter Blair and Ashley Chantler. Editors for Flash: The International Short: Short Story Magazine "In A Box of Dreams, nothing is as it seems. For the characters caught up in Denis Bell's intricately interconnected world of flash fictions, up is down. Black is white. Indeed, only one thing is certain: by the time you're done with A Box of Dreams, you'll find yourself looking over your shoulder... These stories are cool as hell." -Andrew Geyer, Fiction Editor for Concho River Review, author, Lesser Mountains and Whispers in Dust and Bone"Denis Bell and flash fiction represent a marriage made in Heaven. The two dozen short works in his collection, A Box of Dreams, show him working at the top of his game. In each, the reader's mind is taken for a weird, wonderful walk that's by turns wryly humorous and darkly intriguing. Louise Brown's illustrations lend just the right atmosphere for an absorbing read." -Paul Blaney, Writer in Residence, Rutgers University, author, The Anchoress

Denis Bell is a maker of both mathematical formulas and small fictions, which he believes, weirdly, that he draws from a common font. He was born and raised in London, England and studied at the Universities of Manchester and Warwick. His scientific work has been recognized by national funding, an Outstanding Scholarship Award from the University of North Florida and a Research Professorship at MSRI in Berkeley, California. Linguistically challenged in earlier life (as evidenced by three attempts to obtain an English O-level ), he started writing fiction relatively recently. His writing has been published in Grub Street, The Maine Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Journal of Microliterature, Literary Orphans and many other print and online literary magazines and journals. Most of his ramblings, literary and otherwise can be found at https: //www.unf.edu/ dbell.Louise Freshman Brown is a painter and mixed medium artist whose works have been featured in exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe. Solo exhibits include Piirto Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, The Deland Museum of Art, DeLand, FL, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC, City Center Theatre, NYC, Albertson-Peterson Gallery, Winter Park, FL, Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, Hector Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville, FL Group exhibitions include Galleria Retro & Arte, Venice, Italy, Advice Konsthall, Sollentuna, Sweden, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC, Women's Art Cooperative, Van Nuys, CA, The William Whipple Art Gallery, Marshall, MN, New York Academy of Art, NYC, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL, Park Plaza Castle, Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, NYC, Linda Hayman Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL, St. Johns Performing Arts Center, Orange Park, FL, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL Freshman Brown is from Oneida, NY and received her B.F.A. in Painting and M.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. She is a Professor Emerita of Art at The University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL where she has been regularly awarded for excellence in teaching, service and scholarship. In 2005 she received the Outstanding Scholarship Award and in 2007 the Distinguished Professor Award. In 2018 she received the Ann McDonald Baker Art Ventures Award. For the past 40 years, she has conducted workshops and lectures nationally and internationally.

A collection of short fiction, flashes and longer pieces, with interconnections among many of the stories. A writer receives a strange rejection letter from a literary journal where he submitted a short story... a woman reflects on past loves while sitting around a table with three of them... two government agents intercept an ominous sounding blog post from a whacked-out teenager... a man is seduced by a close relative, only to discover belatedly that it is perhaps he who is the more guilty party to the encounter... a lonely office clerk wonders where he has seen his new coworker before... a kid turns the tables on a sexual predator... A Box of Dreams follows in the tradition of Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio. The voices are hurt, dazed, occasionally triumphant, and seldom fully trustworthy. Illustrated in splendid style by Jacksonville, Florida artist Louise Freshman Brown.Denis Bell's collection of short fiction A Box of Dreams, 2nd edition, centers itself in the tradition of Spoon River Anthology (minus the tombstones) and Winesburg, Ohio. A Box of Dreams is dark without a trace of cynicism: it invites empathy for even the least attractive of the characters; these protagonists commonly suffer from mangled memories, rightful guilt, and an inability to distinguish between delusion and reality, between past and present. The stories tease and tantalize: truth glimmers between the lines. Louise Freshman Brown's gorgeous images are haunting illuminations.-- -Miriam N. Kotzin, author, Country Music, Spuyten Duyvil Press"Denis Bell and flash fiction represent a marriage made in Heaven. The two dozen short works in his collection, A Box of Dreams, show him working at the top of his game. In each, the reader's mind is taken for a weird, wonderful walk that's by turns wryly humorous and darkly intriguing. Louise Brown's illustrations lend just the right atmosphere for an absorbing read." - Paul Blaney, Writer in Residence, Rutgers University, author, The Anchoress "Each piece in Denis Bell's A Box of Dreams is a work of magic that moves steadily along, pulling you in, and not letting you go... The stories are by turns haunting, heartbreaking and funny, and they never fail to surprise... Blending the real with the surreal, these stories, more than anything else, get to the heart of our humanity, our vulnerabilities, and they do so in a way that represents the best in flash fiction." -Dennis Pahl, Long Island University, Editor for Confrontation Magazine