MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Don Juan oder die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953)
Max Frisch
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In this German play, sometimes presented in English translation as "Don Juan or the Love of Geometry", the famous lover explains to the audience that the other authors who have written about him have gotten it all wrong; it is mathematics and not women that he truly loves.

Thanks to Thorben Brunschötte for bringing this work of mathematical fiction to my attention.

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Categories:
GenreHumorous,
MotifRomance,
TopicGeometry/Topology/Trigonometry,
MediumPlays,

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)