MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Globión's Whimsical Shape (La Caprichosa Forma de Globión) (1999)
Alejandro Illanes Mejía
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Contributed by Octavio Augustin

It is a tale about the quest of the inhabitants of Globión to find the true shape of their home planet. It also explains in a crystal-clear way some very abstract notions of topology of surfaces, and gives an interesting view of the impact of scientific discoveries among the people (perhaps too optimistic).

This Mexican book was published in Spanish by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1999 and so far as I know has not been translated into any other languages.

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Mathematical Content:
5/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
3/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreScience Fiction, Didactic,
MotifAliens,
TopicGeometry/Topology/Trigonometry,
MediumNovels,

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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)