Technically “ana” and “kata” were coined by Charles Howard Hinton back in 1888, in his book “A New Era of Thought.” Fun fact, his great-grandson is Gregory Hinton, the “godfather of AI.”
But yeah, I did learn them from Sleator as a kid. Sleator was pretty great.
That whole generation of “Kids Learn Abstract Mathematics” books was great. Sideways Stories, A Wrinkle in Time, Flatland/Sphereland, hell even the Call of Cthulhu. Great reads on their own and chock full of high level concepts.
Yeah. I might throw in Alice in Wonderland, White Light, and The Compleat Enchanter. (Not kids learning things in those last two, but the books definitely appealed to me when I was still pretty young.)
Ana and Kata Mongolia
From the famous children’s novel, The Hun Who Reversed Himself
Technically “ana” and “kata” were coined by Charles Howard Hinton back in 1888, in his book “A New Era of Thought.” Fun fact, his great-grandson is Gregory Hinton, the “godfather of AI.”
But yeah, I did learn them from Sleator as a kid. Sleator was pretty great.
That whole generation of “Kids Learn Abstract Mathematics” books was great. Sideways Stories, A Wrinkle in Time, Flatland/Sphereland, hell even the Call of Cthulhu. Great reads on their own and chock full of high level concepts.
Yeah. I might throw in Alice in Wonderland, White Light, and The Compleat Enchanter. (Not kids learning things in those last two, but the books definitely appealed to me when I was still pretty young.)