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.)
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.)