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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mathematicians + +Author: Arthur Feldman + +Illustrator: A. Lake + +Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29140] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MATHEMATICIANS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1>THE<br /> +<big>MATHEMATICIANS</big></h1> + +<h2>BY ARTHUR FELDMAN</h2> + +<div class="bk1"><p><i><big>We gave this story to a very competent, and very pretty gal +artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream on it, and come +up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with +the finished drawing. "The hero," she said. We did a double +take. "Hey! That's not the hero." She looked us straight in +the eye. "Can you prove it?" She had us. We couldn't, and +she left hurriedly to go home and cook dinner for her family. +And what were they having? Frog legs—what else?</big></i></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="smcap">They</span> were in the garden. "Now, +Zoe," said Zenia Hawkins to +her nine-year-old daughter, "quit +fluttering around, and papa will +tell you a story."</p> + +<p>Zoe settled down in the hammock. +"A true story, papa?"</p> + +<p>"It all happened exactly like +I'm going to tell you," said Drake +Hawkins, pinching Zoe's rosy +cheek. "Now: two thousand and +eleven years ago in 1985, figuring +by the earthly calendar of that +time, a tribe of beings from the +Dog-star Sirius invaded the +earth."</p> + +<p>"And what did these beings +look like, father?"</p> + +<p>"Like humans in many, many +respects. They each had two arms, +two legs and all the other organs +that humans are endowed with."</p> + +<p>"Wasn't there any difference +at all between the Star-beings and +the humans, papa?"</p> + +<p>"There was. The newcomers, +each and all, had a pair of wings +covered with green feathers growing +from their shoulders, and long, +purple tails."</p> + +<p>"How many of these beings +were there, father?"</p> + +<p>"Exactly three million and +forty-one male adults and three +female adults. These creatures +first appeared on Earth on the +island of Sardinia. In five weeks' +time they were the masters of the +entire globe."</p> + +<p>"Didn't the Earth-lings fight +back, papa?"</p> + +<p>"The humans warred against +the invaders, using bullets, ordinary +bombs, super-atom bombs +and gases."</p> + +<div class="figright"><small><b>Illustrator: A. Lake</b></small><img src="images/001.png" width="397" height="500" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>"What were those things like, +father?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, they've passed out of +existence long ago. 'Ammunition' +they were called. The humans +fought each other with such +things."</p> + +<p>"And not with ideas, like we +do now, father?"</p> + +<p>"No, with guns, just like I told +you. But the invaders were immune +to the ammunition."</p> + +<p>"What does 'immune' mean?"</p> + +<p>"Proof against harm. Then the +humans tried germs and bacteria +against the star-beings."</p> + +<p>"What were those things?"</p> + +<p>"Tiny, tiny bugs that the +humans tried to inject into the +bodies of the invaders to make +them sicken and die. But the +bugs had no effect at all on the +star-beings."</p> + +<p>"Go on, papa. These beings +over-ran all Earth. Go on from +there."</p> + +<p>"You must know, these newcomers +were vastly more intelligent +than the Earth-lings. In +fact, the invaders were the greatest +mathematicians in the System."</p> + +<p>"What's the System? And what +does mathematician mean?"</p> + +<p>"The Milky Way. A mathematician +is one who is good +at figuring, weighing, measuring, +clever with numbers."</p> + +<p>"Then, father, the invaders +killed off all the Earth-lings?"</p> + +<p>"Not all. They killed many, +but many others were enslaved. +Just as the humans had used +horses and cattle, the newcomers +so used the humans. They made +workers out of some, others they +slaughtered for food."</p> + +<p>"Papa, what sort of language +did these Star-beings talk?"</p> + +<p>"A very simple language, but +the humans were never able to +master it. So, the invaders, being +so much smarter, mastered all the +languages of the globe."</p> + +<p>"What did the Earth-lings call +the invaders, father?"</p> + +<p>"'An-vils'. Half angels, half +devils."</p> + +<p>"Then, papa, everything was +peaceful on Earth after the An-vils +enslaved the humans?"</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>"For a little while. Then, some +of the most daring of the humans, +led by a man named Knowall, +escaped into the interior of Greenland. +This Knowall was a psychiatrist, +the foremost on Earth."</p> + +<p>"What's a psychiatrist?"</p> + +<p>"A dealer in ideas."</p> + +<p>"Then, he was very rich?"</p> + +<p>"He'd been the richest human +on Earth. After some profound +thought, Knowall figured a way +to rid the earth of the An-vils."</p> + +<p>"How, papa?"</p> + +<p>"He perfected a method, called +the Knowall-Hughes, Ilinski technique, +of imbuing these An-vils +with human emotions."</p> + +<p>"What does 'imbuing' mean?"</p> + +<p>"He filled them full of and +made them aware of."</p> + +<p>Zenia interrupted, "Aren't you +talking a bit above the child's +understanding, Drake?"</p> + +<p>"No, mama," said Zoe. "I +understand what papa explained. +Now, don't interrupt."</p> + +<p>"So, Knowall," continued +Drake, "filled the An-vils with +human feelings such as Love, +Hate, Ambition, Jealousy, Malice, +Envy, Despair, Hope, Fear, +Shame and so on. Very soon the +An-vils were acting like humans, +and in ten days, terrible civil wars +wiped out the An-vils' population +by two-thirds."</p> + +<p>"Then, papa, the An-vils finally +killed off each other?"</p> + +<p>"Almost, until among them a +being named Zalibar, full of saintliness +and persuasion, preached +the brotherhood of all An-vils. +The invaders, quickly converted, +quit their quarrels, and the Earth-lings +were even more enslaved."</p> + +<p>"Oh, papa, weren't Knowall +and his followers in Greenland +awfully sad the way things had +turned out?"</p> + +<p>"For a while. Then Knowall +came up with the final pay-off."</p> + +<p>"Is that slang, papa? Pay-off?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. The coup-de-grace. The +ace in the hole that he'd saved, if +all else failed."</p> + +<p>"I understand, papa. The idea +that would out-trump anything the +other side had to offer. What was +it, father? What did they have?"</p> + +<p>"Knowall imbued the An-vils +with nostalgia."</p> + +<p>"What is nostalgia?"</p> + +<p>"Home sickness."</p> + +<p>"Oh, papa, wasn't Knowall +smart? That meant, the An-vils +were all filled with the desire to +fly back to the star from where +they had started."</p> + +<p>"Exactly. So, one day, all the +An-vils, an immense army, flapping +their great green wings, +assembled in the Black Hills of +North America, and, at a given +signal, they all rose up from Earth +and all the humans chanted, +'Glory, glory, the day of our +deliverance!'"</p> + +<p>"So then, father, all the An-vils +flew away from Earth?"</p> + +<p>"Not all. There were two child +An-vils, one male and one female, +aged two years, who had been +born on Earth, and they started +off with all the other An-vils and +flew up into the sky. But when +they reached the upper limits of +the strato-sphere, they hesitated, +turned tail and fluttered back to +Earth where they had been born. +Their names were Zizzo and +Zizza."</p> + +<p>"And what happened to Zizzo +and Zizza, papa?"</p> + +<p>"Well, like all the An-vils, they +were great mathematicians. So, +they multiplied."</p> + +<p>"Oh, papa," laughed Zoe, flapping +her wings excitedly, "that +was a very nice story!"</p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/002-2.jpg"><img src="images/002-1.jpg" width="144" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><b><big>Transcriber's Note:</big></b></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Amazing Stories</i> Oct.-Nov. 1953. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mathematicians + +Author: Arthur Feldman + +Illustrator: A. Lake + +Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29140] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MATHEMATICIANS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +THE MATHEMATICIANS + +BY ARTHUR FELDMAN + + + _We gave this story to a very competent, and very pretty gal artist. + We said, "Read this carefully, dream on it, and come up with an + illustration." A week later, she returned with the finished drawing. + "The hero," she said. We did a double take. "Hey! That's not the + hero." She looked us straight in the eye. "Can you prove it?" She + had us. We couldn't, and she left hurriedly to go home and cook + dinner for her family. And what were they having? Frog legs--what + else?_ + + +They were in the garden. "Now, Zoe," said Zenia Hawkins to her +nine-year-old daughter, "quit fluttering around, and papa will tell you +a story." + +Zoe settled down in the hammock. "A true story, papa?" + +"It all happened exactly like I'm going to tell you," said Drake +Hawkins, pinching Zoe's rosy cheek. "Now: two thousand and eleven years +ago in 1985, figuring by the earthly calendar of that time, a tribe of +beings from the Dog-star Sirius invaded the earth." + +"And what did these beings look like, father?" + +"Like humans in many, many respects. They each had two arms, two legs +and all the other organs that humans are endowed with." + +"Wasn't there any difference at all between the Star-beings and the +humans, papa?" + +"There was. The newcomers, each and all, had a pair of wings covered +with green feathers growing from their shoulders, and long, purple +tails." + +"How many of these beings were there, father?" + +"Exactly three million and forty-one male adults and three female +adults. These creatures first appeared on Earth on the island of +Sardinia. In five weeks' time they were the masters of the entire +globe." + +"Didn't the Earth-lings fight back, papa?" + +"The humans warred against the invaders, using bullets, ordinary +bombs, super-atom bombs and gases." + +[Illustration: Illustrator: A. Lake] + +"What were those things like, father?" + +"Oh, they've passed out of existence long ago. 'Ammunition' they were +called. The humans fought each other with such things." + +"And not with ideas, like we do now, father?" + +"No, with guns, just like I told you. But the invaders were immune to +the ammunition." + +"What does 'immune' mean?" + +"Proof against harm. Then the humans tried germs and bacteria against +the star-beings." + +"What were those things?" + +"Tiny, tiny bugs that the humans tried to inject into the bodies of the +invaders to make them sicken and die. But the bugs had no effect at all +on the star-beings." + +"Go on, papa. These beings over-ran all Earth. Go on from there." + +"You must know, these newcomers were vastly more intelligent than the +Earth-lings. In fact, the invaders were the greatest mathematicians in +the System." + +"What's the System? And what does mathematician mean?" + +"The Milky Way. A mathematician is one who is good at figuring, +weighing, measuring, clever with numbers." + +"Then, father, the invaders killed off all the Earth-lings?" + +"Not all. They killed many, but many others were enslaved. Just as the +humans had used horses and cattle, the newcomers so used the humans. +They made workers out of some, others they slaughtered for food." + +"Papa, what sort of language did these Star-beings talk?" + +"A very simple language, but the humans were never able to master it. +So, the invaders, being so much smarter, mastered all the languages of +the globe." + +"What did the Earth-lings call the invaders, father?" + +"'An-vils'. Half angels, half devils." + +"Then, papa, everything was peaceful on Earth after the An-vils enslaved +the humans?" + + * * * * * + +"For a little while. Then, some of the most daring of the humans, led by +a man named Knowall, escaped into the interior of Greenland. This +Knowall was a psychiatrist, the foremost on Earth." + +"What's a psychiatrist?" + +"A dealer in ideas." + +"Then, he was very rich?" + +"He'd been the richest human on Earth. After some profound thought, +Knowall figured a way to rid the earth of the An-vils." + +"How, papa?" + +"He perfected a method, called the Knowall-Hughes, Ilinski technique, of +imbuing these An-vils with human emotions." + +"What does 'imbuing' mean?" + +"He filled them full of and made them aware of." + +Zenia interrupted, "Aren't you talking a bit above the child's +understanding, Drake?" + +"No, mama," said Zoe. "I understand what papa explained. Now, don't +interrupt." + +"So, Knowall," continued Drake, "filled the An-vils with human feelings +such as Love, Hate, Ambition, Jealousy, Malice, Envy, Despair, Hope, +Fear, Shame and so on. Very soon the An-vils were acting like humans, +and in ten days, terrible civil wars wiped out the An-vils' population +by two-thirds." + +"Then, papa, the An-vils finally killed off each other?" + +"Almost, until among them a being named Zalibar, full of saintliness and +persuasion, preached the brotherhood of all An-vils. The invaders, +quickly converted, quit their quarrels, and the Earth-lings were even +more enslaved." + +"Oh, papa, weren't Knowall and his followers in Greenland awfully sad +the way things had turned out?" + +"For a while. Then Knowall came up with the final pay-off." + +"Is that slang, papa? Pay-off?" + +"Yes. The coup-de-grace. The ace in the hole that he'd saved, if all +else failed." + +"I understand, papa. The idea that would out-trump anything the other +side had to offer. What was it, father? What did they have?" + +"Knowall imbued the An-vils with nostalgia." + +"What is nostalgia?" + +"Home sickness." + +"Oh, papa, wasn't Knowall smart? That meant, the An-vils were all filled +with the desire to fly back to the star from where they had started." + +"Exactly. So, one day, all the An-vils, an immense army, flapping their +great green wings, assembled in the Black Hills of North America, and, +at a given signal, they all rose up from Earth and all the humans +chanted, 'Glory, glory, the day of our deliverance!'" + +"So then, father, all the An-vils flew away from Earth?" + +"Not all. There were two child An-vils, one male and one female, aged +two years, who had been born on Earth, and they started off with all the +other An-vils and flew up into the sky. But when they reached the upper +limits of the strato-sphere, they hesitated, turned tail and fluttered +back to Earth where they had been born. Their names were Zizzo and +Zizza." + +"And what happened to Zizzo and Zizza, papa?" + +"Well, like all the An-vils, they were great mathematicians. So, they +multiplied." + +"Oh, papa," laughed Zoe, flapping her wings excitedly, "that was a very +nice story!" + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ Oct.-Nov. 1953. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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