a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)
a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)
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| This play, written by Cambridge cosmologist John Barrow, has been produced and performed in Italy (Milan and Valencia). It is made up of five separate vignettes several of which touch on the deep mathematics of "infinity". In one, we see a theatrical production of an old standard: Hilbert's Hotel with countably many rooms. In another, we are brought to Borges' "Library of Babel". The fourth dramatizes the arguments between Cantor and Kronecker about the nature of infinity. The other two scenarios, about time travel and the possibilities of living forever, are decidedly less mathematical.
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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)
