![]() ![]() The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire. Own votes on its mathematical content and literary quality or sendĮxciting News: The total number of works of mathematical fiction listed in this database recently reached a milestone. ![]() Mathematical fiction? Then click here to enter your Works of mathematical fiction, return to the Homepage.)Īccording to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one: Up in a few places, including explicit formulas."īuy this work of mathematical fiction and read reviews at. ![]() "Partly inspired by Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form, mathematics shows One of the main characters is an "applied topologist", references are made to "modular calculus" which (as in other Delany novels) is a form of mathematics for discussing analogies, and a rather messy formula (involving semi-infinite sums, integrals, exponentials and trig functions) is displayed as part of a description of a game that the colonists enjoy playing. Originally published under the shorter title Triton, this "hard SF" novel uses mathematical concepts as part of its description of life for human colonists on the moon Triton. A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]()
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