Mathemagic: The Most Powerful Number of Them All

by Rohini Chowdhury

‘Zero is very special. There is no other number quite like it in the universe.’
So says Sir Tzyphyr.
Sir Tzyphyr is no ordinary magician. He is the greatest Wizard of the universe for he knows mathemagic, the spell of numbers. This gives him powers greater than ordinary magic ever could. Join him as he takes the twins Megha and Mehul on a second exciting journey into the magical world of numbers. This time they find out all they can about that most special and mysterious of numbers, ZERO!

60 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2013

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.

Reviews

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy and quick read. This deals with the numbers particularly 0 and the numbers importance. Good for the age group 7+.