MathFiction: Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (Rudy Rucker (editor))

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (1987)

Rudy Rucker (editor)
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Highly Rated!

This collection contains a wonderful assortment of mathematically oriented SF written between 1962 (when Mathematical Magpie appeared) and 1987 when this volume was published. Editor Rudy Rucker is a former math professor and well known author of mathematical fiction in his own right. Unfortunately, it is out of print and hard to find.

"1 to 999" by Isaac Asimov
"Four Brands of Impossible" by Norman Kagan
"Tangents" by Greg Bear
"A New Golden Age" by Rudy Rucker
"Professor and Colonel" by Ruth Berman
"The Maxwell Equations" by Anatoly Dnieprov
"Left or Right" by Martin Gardner
"Immune Dreams" by Ian Watson
"Forbidden Knowledge" by Katheryn Cramer
"Gödel's Doom" by George Zebrowski
"The Tale of Happiton" by Douglas Hofstadter
"The Finagle Fiasco" by Don Sakers
"Convergent Series" by Larry Niven
"No-Sided Professor" by Martin Gardner
"Euclid Alone" by William F Orr
"Love Comes to the Middleman" by Marc Laidlaw
"Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension" by Robert Sheckley
"The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov
"Cubeworld" by Henry H. Gross
"Schematic Man" by Frederik Pohl
"Time's Rub" by Gregory Benford
"Message Found in a Copy of Flatland" by Rudy Rucker
"The Mathenauts" by Norman Kagan

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According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:

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Riot at the Calc Exam and Other Mathematically Bent Stories by Colin Adams
Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker
Journey to the Center of Mathematics by Colin Adams
The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science by Chandler Davis (editor) / Marjorie Senechal (editor) / Jan Zwicky (editor)
White Light, or What is Cantor's Continuum Problem? by Rudy Rucker

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Mathematical Content:
5/5 (3 votes)

Literary Quality:
3.33/5 (3 votes)

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