Mathemagic: Numbers, Numbers Everywhere

by Rohini Chowdhury

'I am Tzyphyr, the greatest Wizard and Mathemagician in the Universe. You may call me Sir Tzyphyr!' – declared the twins’ strange visitor. Tall and thin as a pencil, he wore a flowing, old-fashioned robe and a very cross look on his face.
Sir Tzyphyr is no ordinary Wizard – he knows mathemagic, the spell of numbers. It gives him a power greater than ordinary magic ever could.
With him, the twins Megha and Mehul set off on a series of adventures to explore the fascinating world of numbers. They learn how numbers are used to measure, count and set things in order.
Are you ready for a mathemagical adventure with them?

64 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2012

About the author

Rohini Chowdhury is a widely published children’s writer, and an established literary translator.

As a children’s writer, she has more than twenty books and several short stories to her credit. Her published writing is in Hindi and English, and covers a wide spectrum of literary genres including translations, novels, short fiction, comics, and non-fiction. Her most recent publications for children include The Garden of the Djinn, a fantasy adventure novel. Her literary interests include mythology, folklore, mathematics and history.

Rohini’s primary languages as a literary translator are pre-modern (Braj Bhasha and Avadhi) and modern (Khari Boli) Hindi, and English. Her translations include the seventeenth century Braj Bhasha text Ardhakathanak, widely regarded as the first autobiography in an Indian language, into modern Hindi and into English, and the Hindi novel Tyagpatra [The Resignation] by Jainendra, one of the leading Hindi novelists of the modern period, into English. Her most recent translation is Devaki Nandan Khatri's mystery-adventure novel, 'Chandrakanta', amongst the earliest and most popular works in its genre in Hindi.