math-books
Mathematical Fiction is a nice site maintained by Alex Kasman and is an attempt to collect information about all significant references to mathematics in fiction. In september I ordered a pile of novels from this list from Amazon and had an enjoyable read (mostly) since. I’ve mentioned a couple of books already on this blog and at one time had the intention of writing about each book I finished. But, I’m not very good at refereeing/reviewing, so not much came out of this… Still, the MathFiction list is an excellent way to discover authors and books you probably wouldn’t encounter otherwise. So far, I read about 15 novels from the list, focussing on mystery (rather than SF or any other of the categories the list let you choose from). Here is a list of the ten I liked most, in order (with links to the relevant MathFiction page)
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In search of Klingsor, by Jorge Volpi
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Popco, by Scarlett Thomas
- Lord Byron’s novel ‘The Evening Land’, by John Crowley
- The Oxford Murders, by Guillermo Martinez
- Nymphomation, by Jeff Noon
- The fractal murders, by Mark Cohen
- Improbable, by Adam Fawer
- Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer
- The wild numbers, by Philibert Schogt
- Signal to noise, by Eric S. Nylund
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Written on Wed, 28 December 2005 at 6:48 pm
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