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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 form and the medium of the works are not important.
Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré is a book on the history of mathematics published in 1937 by Scottish-born American mathematician and science fiction writer E. T. Bell (1883–1960). After a brief chapter on three ancient mathematicians, it covers the lives of about forty ...
Vernor Steffen Vinge (/ ˈ v ɜːr n ər ˈ v ɪ n dʒ iː / ⓘ; October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to ...
Fictional mathematicians, people who use an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems Pages in category "Fictional ...
As of 2015, Egan lives in Perth.He is a vegetarian [2] [11] and an atheist. [12]Egan does not attend science fiction conventions, [13] does not sign books, and has stated that he appears in no photographs on the web, [14] though both SF fan sites and Google Search have at times mistakenly identified him as the subject of photos of other people with the same name.
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 ...
Rucker taught mathematics at the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1972 to 1978. Although he was liked by his students and "published a book [Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension] and several papers," several colleagues took umbrage at his long hair and convivial relationships with English and philosophy professors amid looming budget shortfalls; as a result, he failed to ...
Schild's Ladder is a 2002 science fiction novel by Australian author Greg Egan. [1] The book derives its name from Schild's ladder , a construction in differential geometry , devised by the mathematician and physicist Alfred Schild .