MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Flame War: A Cyberthriller (1997)
Joshua Quittner / Michelle Slatalla
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A brilliant math professor invents a code that even the government will not be able to break. When he dies in an explosion, his daughter and the law student who (unknowingly) delivered the bomb that killed him work together to bring the killers to justice.

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Works Similar to Flame War: A Cyberthriller
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. The Crimson Cipher by Susan Page Davis
  2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  3. The Visiting Professor by Robert Littell
  4. Electric by Chad Taylor
  5. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs
  6. Echoes from the Past by Edward Michel-Bird
  7. Hickory Dickory Shock! The Tale of Techies by Sundip Gorai
  8. Deep Lay the Dead by Frederick C. Davis
  9. Qui perd gagne! by Laurent Bénégui (Director)
  10. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
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Mathematical Content:
1/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
2/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreMystery, Adventure/Espionage,
MotifAcademia,
TopicComputers/Cryptography,
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Exciting News: The total number of works of mathematical fiction listed in this database recently reached a milestone. The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire. Thanks to Vijay Fafat for writing the summary of that work (and so many others). I am also grateful to everyone who has contributed to this website. Heck, I'm grateful to everyone who visited the site. Thank you!

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