MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Freemium (2021)
Louis Evans
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A man whose ethically questionable internet scheme made him a billionaire gets even more rich and powerful when unknown aliens provide him with factorizations of large integers and predictions of the stock market. But, don't worry, justice is eventually served...with a side order of dramatic irony.

Allan Goldberg suggested I include this short story which appeared in the "Futures" column of the journal Nature (March 31, 2021).

More information about this work can be found at www.nature.com.
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Categories:
GenreHumorous, Science Fiction,
MotifAliens, Future Prediction through Math,
TopicComputers/Cryptography, Algebra/Arithmetic/Number Theory,
MediumShort Stories,

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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)