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Mathematical fiction is a genre of creative fictional work in which mathematics and mathematicians play important roles. The form and the medium of the works are not important. The genre may include poems, short stories, novels or plays; comic books; films, videos, or audios.
These mathematical fiction novels and other fiction books have some elements of mathematics, or feature real or fictional mathematicians. Frequently these books use narrative devices to explore mathematical topics.
Moebius (1996) – Topologists including a young girl make contributions to the subway system and other facets of reality in Argentina in this math film with a science fiction and surreal feel. Moneyball (2011) – Oakland Athletics baseball team's general manager Billy Beane attempts to assemble a competitive team using statistics.
Fictional mathematicians, people who use an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems See also: Category:Mathematics fiction books Pages in category "Fictional mathematicians"
A History of Greek Mathematics; An Account of the Rotula Arithmetica; Adventures Among the Toroids; The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem; Algorithmic Combinatorics on Partial Words; The Analyst; Analytic Combinatorics (book) The Annotated Turing; Antifragile (book) Antiquarian science books; The Applicability of Mathematics in Science ...
Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs.
Stephen Baxter at the Science-Fiction-Tage NRW in Dortmund, Germany, March 1997 A second category in Baxter's work is based on readings in evolutionary biology and human/animal behaviour. Elements of this appear in his future histories (especially later works like the Destiny's Children series and Flood / Ark ), but here it is the focus.
The book includes a total of 184 illustrations, including 88 full-colour pictures of Julia sets. Although the format suggests a coffee table book, the discussion of the background of the presented images addresses some sophisticated mathematics which would not be found in popular science books. In 1987 the book won an Award for distinguished ...