MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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The Book of Getting Even (2009)
Benjamin Taylor
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A brilliant homosexual teenager uses mathematics as an escape from the pressures of everyday life, including his father, a rabbi in 1970's New Orleans. Along the way, he gets to know (and love, in a variety of ways) the family of a Nobel prize winning physicist and he himself becomes a cosmologist.

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Categories:
Genre
MotifProdigies, Academia, Romance, Religion,
TopicMathematical Physics,
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Exciting News: The total number of works of mathematical fiction listed in this database recently reached a milestone. The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire. Thanks to Vijay Fafat for writing the summary of that work (and so many others). I am also grateful to everyone who has contributed to this website. Heck, I'm grateful to everyone who visited the site. Thank you!

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