MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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The Year of the Tiger (1996)
Jack Higgins
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Cold war spy thriller in which our hero must help an aged Soviet mathematician escape to our side of the Iron Curtain. (I haven't read the book, just some reviews, so if there is more to say about it than this, please let me know!)

Contributed by Zach

This book actually has absolutely no math in it at all. It was a quite enjoyable narrative but here is the entirety of math in it: "Hoffner demonstrated that energy itself is space locked up in a certain pattern. His proof involved an audacious development of non-Euclidean geometry which was as revolutionary as Einstein's theory of relativity." That's it.

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According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
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  2. Mathematical R & D by Paul J. Nahin
  3. The Expert by Lee Gruenfeld
  4. Code to Zero by Ken Follett
  5. The Deluge by Stephen Markley
  6. 7 Steps to Midnight by Richard Matheson
  7. En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor) by Jorge Volpi
  8. The Sabre Squadron by Simon Raven
  9. Bone Chase by Weston Ochse
  10. Tetraktys by Ari Juels
Ratings for The Year of the Tiger:
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Mathematical Content:
1/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
4/5 (1 votes)
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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.

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