The Book without a Name

I have finished my project!

I will just reread the last chapter tonight (uh . . . I mean this morning) to proof it, and then I will have it printed.

It has no name yet.

"Truth and Beauty" just doesn't cut it for the audience I am looking to attract.

One suggestion was "Beauty, not the Beast."

My husband had a suggestion the other night that I don't think I'll use but is perhaps closer: "Frost and Fibonnaci: Not So Strange Bedfellows."

I just can't quite hit it. I want something attention-grabbing, light, compelling and descriptive. I'm not asking for much, am I?

Any suggestions?

. . . later (2)

I had a good talk with a fourth grade teacher tonight regarding ideas for my graduate project. I contacted him to try to brainstorm as I have begun working on my prospectus. He sounds very excited and feels his principal and colleagues will be excited as well.

I also have an appointment to speak with the principal of a private school next week. He also sounds very eager to interact with me about that.

I'm feeling very encouraged.As I continue writing, I am doing a lot of reading, and I came across the following in the preface to the book "Think of a Number: Ideas, Concepts, and Problems which Challenge the Mind and Baffle the Experts." The author is a physicist with mathematical leanings who graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford. He describes his defense of his research back in 1961 in which one long-serving fellow of the college, who had seemed annoyed stood to his feet and said, "These Green's functions that I hear you talking so much about, how would you explain one of those to a medieval historian?"

The author commented that that question has haunted him to this day. In his preface he goes on to say:

Firstly . . . someone who claims to understand, and be excited by, any aspect of science (and yes, even mathematics) ought to be able to pass on the essence of that knowledge and enthusiasm to any reaonably intelligent layperson who is interested. Secondly . . . many of the most exciting advances of this kind do lend themselves admirably to just such exposition. And finally, and perhaps most importantly . . . there may be a much wider potential interest 'out there' than anyone suspects -- if only authors would make a serious effort to bridge the verbal chasm between the specialized jargon of the learned journals and the normal vocabulary of the population at large.

That pretty much parallels what I have set forth as the goal of my work.

As of today I have completed Chapter 4: Empowerment. I have a good direction for Chapter 5: Elegance and have basically finished Chapter 6: Surprise, except for polishing it. I hope to complete my writing within the next two weeks.

I am also planning to include an index, which seems like it will be tedious work. Time will tell. That too needs yet to be done - as do the end notes as I continue writing.

Completed so far: introduction, chapters 1-4, afterword, appendix 1, appendix 2, and references.