Kongtcheu Philibert Foumthim (8 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This short collection of illustrated poetry and dabblings in Chinese calligraphy mixed with their short stories and commentaries is published in commemoration of the annual town of Secaucus New Jersey's 3rd annual Art Show and Reception on April 17, 2013, especially as April is National Poetry Month. It contains the author's original creations, adaptations of classics (Invictus), excursions in Mandarin Chinese and Gujarati, all of it delivered with passion within stories that make this short book highly enjoyable. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book reproduces a thesis submitted by the author as a final requirement for the ALM degree in Literature and Creative Writing at the Extension School at Harvard University. It is made up of two parts: a critical essay and an original epic length screenplay The screenplay brings to a contemporary audience the life of Louis Bachelier (1870-1946), the first mathematician (French) to use modern mathematics to describe the behavior of financial markets. It lets unfold the prejudices and struggles he had to overcome, as viewed in our time by a young black mathematician of African origin named K., starting in grad school in Paris in the mid-90s, and then on to Wall Street, as a proponent of a new theory of decision making based on a proto-probabilistic concept called BICs (Basis Instruments Contracts) that he has invented. It spans Bachelier's life from the death of his parents to his famous thesis in 1900, to the dramas of the Dreyfus affair in France, WW I, up to the death of his ephemeral spouse, and the climactic denial of tenure to him in 1926. The narrative unfolds as K. himself experience similar struggles and prejudices in modern times which lead him from Wall Street to inner city life in Newark, NJ, and then to Beijing China, and back to New York. The intertwined narratives unfold in at least four languages - English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Ghomala - serving as a clinical and scientific examination of the various dimensions of prejudice, language, deriving analytical insights that bind persuasion, risk, prejudice, rewards and punishments in the decision making process. It also features two heart wrenching love stories that grip hearts and reveal characters of great humanity. This is a universal story of the travails of the misunderstood and unappreciated underdog, who nonetheless keeps on soldiering to usher in a better world. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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