Of course, since that time, nobody would fall for the myth of perpetual economic growth! (BTW In case this sarcasm is not so obvious far in the future when someone may read this remark, let me add that a recent resurgence of this same myth resulted in some unpleasantness.) It is interesting to me that in 1915 (prior to the big crash of '29), the idea that an investment would just keep growing and growing (unless the bank was robbed, which the story does mention) may have seemed reasonable.It is cool that this story from 1915 seemingly predicts the current fad for "distance education" which is a hot topic in academia as well as cordless (cell?) phones:.However, as long as I'm adding this here, I'd like to add some remarks of a non-mathematical nature: There is one other tiny bit of mathematics in the form of this quote: Perhaps I was just being snooty, or perhaps my standards have changed, but Vijay Fafat has convinced me to add it to the database now. In the past, I did not consider this to be sufficiently mathematical to be included in this database. The main mathematical content of this science fiction story is an illustration of the potential of exponential growth in the form of considering how a single dollar invested in a bank would grow in value over many years to be a huge sum:
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