MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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A Matter of Mathematics (1999)
Brian Wilson Aldiss
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A space/time shortcut is found connecting the earth to the moon. Its use provokes an alien response, consisting of a device encoding within it some very strange mathematics.

(For those interested, the title story of the Aldiss collection was the original inspiration for Kubrick/Spielberg's AI.)

Also published as "The Apollo Asteroid". In Crowther and Greenberg (eds) "Moon Shots".

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  4. La formule: (A story of fourth dimension) by Jean Ray
  5. The Crazy Mathematician by Ralph Sylvester Underwood
  6. Love and a Triangle by Stanley Waterloo
  7. The Tale of a Comet by Spencer Edward
  8. The Whisper of Disks by John Meaney
  9. Conservation of Probability by Brook West
  10. Project Flatty by Irving Cox Jr.
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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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