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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.
Others preferred to think of the fourth dimension in spatial terms, and some associated the new mathematics with wider changes in modern culture. In science fiction, a higher "dimension" often refers to parallel or alternate universes or other imagined planes of existence. This usage is derived from the idea that to travel to parallel/alternate ...
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.
Anathem won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2009 [13] and collected nominations for the Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards the same year. [13] In 2008, the novel received a nomination for the British Science Fiction Award. [14]
Dune by Frank Herbert. Dune is epic sci-fi. Operatic sci-fi. It’s the sci-fi of world (nay, universe) building, and in that sense it shares much with the fantasy genre—those works inspired by ...
Analytic Combinatorics (book) The Annotated Turing; Antifragile (book) Antiquarian science books; The Applicability of Mathematics in Science: Indispensability and Ontology; Arithmetica Logarithmica; Arithmetica Universalis; Arnold's Problems; Ars Magna (Cardano book) Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms; ATLAS of Finite Groups; Automorphic ...
The Ware Tetralogy is a series of four science fiction novels by author Rudy Rucker: Software (1982), Wetware (1988), Freeware (1997) and Realware (2000). [1]The first two books both received the Philip K. Dick Award for best novel.
Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA (born 24 September 1945) [3] is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. [4] He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England.