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Gospel Truths (2007) |
 | J.G. Sandom |
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Another novel in the same genre as The Da Vinci Code – an Earth-shaking secret which can destroy the Roman Catholic Church (as a character says, “Can you imagine the headline? ‘Christ found to... (more)
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The Mathematician (1997) |
 | George Weinberg |
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“Peter K was the first person on earth ever to invert a skew symmetric matrix by pressing a button”. So begins the story, set in the years where computers had just started making a foray into the... (more)
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Oh, Brother (2007) |
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| Stanley Hart |
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A serious mystery/adventure novella from an author better known as a script writer for the old Carol Burnett show. A professor solicits the help of his brother, a retired police detective, in order to... (more)
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The Proof of Love (2011) |
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| Catherine Hall |
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A Cambridge maths grad student takes a holiday in England's remote and rural Lake District, hoping to be able to make progress on his research but instead learning more about his own humanity. A major... (more)
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The Perfect Spiral (2001) |
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| Jason Hornsby |
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This first novel by controversial young author Jason Hornsby was written when he was 18 years old. It combines elements of genres in an avant garde sort of way, and focuses on the lives of teenagers in... (more)
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The Fibonacci Confessions (2010) |
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| Graham Wade |
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A historical novel telling the life story of Leonardo Pisano, perhaps the most famous European mathematician of the Middle Ages, better known today as Fibonacci.
We know very little of the historical... (more)
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Turing's Delirium (2007) |
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| Edmundo Paz Soldan |
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This is a hacker-counter-hacker story set in Bolivia, where the newly resurrected president hires an NSA official to set up the country's counter-espionage / cyber-security unit ("Black Chamber"). The... (more)
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The Clockwork Rocket (2011) |
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| Greg Egan |
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"The Clockwork Rocket" by Greg Egan is the first in his Orthogonal trilogy. As usual the author is very committed with the writing and goes the extra mile (or miles in this case) in order to achieve... (more)
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The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze: A Mathematical Novel (2011) |
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| Alex Kuo |
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A story of two number theorists at the opposite ends of the world having similar experiences of strife and disillusionment at times of great turmoil. Ge is a female mathematician teaching in schools in... (more)
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The Needle in a Haystack (2002) |
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| Tom DeMarco |
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A pretty funny, silly story about a tailor with a mathematical bent who loses a needle in a haystack. Quite despondent about his chances of finding it, he decides to be mathematically rigorous in his... (more)
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Distances (2008) |
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| Vandana Singh |
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In the very distant future, a young woman named Anasunya feels alone as she begins working at the Temple of Mathematical Arts. She has a gift that allows her to intuitively understand, almost to live... (more)
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Pythagoras Eagle & the Music of the Spheres (2003) |
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| Anne Carse Nolting |
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A very well-written, highly mathematical novel for 5th – 6th graders. Three children – Shawna, Adin and Tavia – are math aficionados and are trying to crack the Beale Ciphers, a set of 3 documents... (more)
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The Secret Number (2010) |
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| Igor Teper |
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In this very cute story, a mathematician who believes that there is an integer between 3 and 4 tries to convince his psychiatrist that he is not crazy. The idea is not very deep, but it is well handled... (more)
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Travelling Salesman (2012) |
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| Andy Lanzone (writer) / Timothy Lanzone (director and writer) |
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This film is schedule for release in June 2012, two months in the future as I write this. I have no inside information but the blurb for the trailer (see below) says:
Travelling Salesman is an intellectual... (more)
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Dead Ancients Trilogy (2008) |
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| Peter Hobbs |
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Pythagoras explains in first person his celebrated theorem, complete with diagrams and shaded triangles. It is a source of substantial chagrin to him because it naturally leads to the irrational numbers.... (more)
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Disciple of the Masses (2008) |
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| Xujun Eberlein |
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A pathos-filled short story set in rural China toward the end of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. It captures beautifully the sense of loss inherent in a centrally-directed and enforced revolution, with... (more)
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Crunch (2003) |
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| John Gould |
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A short story in which a man tries to explain to his son, Barry, the relative sizes of things when the child happens to ask, “How small is in-fin-ite-ly small?”. So father and son start exploring... (more)
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Thirteen Diamonds (2000) |
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| Alan Cook |
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A murder mystery set in a retirement community in Chapel Hill, NC. During a bridge game at the club, one of the members, a Nobel-laureate in Economics, keels over and dies after receiving a perfect hand... (more)
Last Changed: 2012-04-23 18:21:21 |
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Black Numbers (2011) |
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| Dean Frank Lappi |
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In a fantasy world where math is magic, a young boy's life is endangered as it becomes clear that he is the long awaited Aleph Null.
I really do like the way the characters utilize equations and mentally... (more)
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The Clueless Girl's Guide to Being a Genius (2011) |
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| Janice Repka |
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An excellent book for 4th – 5th graders but one I would recommend for all teachers and students. Written as an interlaced, first-person account of two young girls – Aphrodite, who is a math prodigy... (more)
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Mobius Strip (1978) |
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| Cho-Se Hui |
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A very short Korean tale, where the author has tried to give a parallel between a situation in real life and the Möbius strip. The story begins with a Math professor’s lecture, where he explains... (more)
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Shaffery Among the Immortals (1972) |
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| Frederik Pohl |
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A funny yarn about one Jeremy Shaffery, an astronomer who idolizes Einstein and his methods and who wants to achieve immortal fame by doing something just as famous. The problem is that he is not built... (more)
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Claudia and the Middle School Mystery (Baby-sitters Club) (1995) |
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| Ann Martin |
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A 100-page novel for 2nd graders about Claudia, a girl who is weak in mathematics but who studies hard to pass a class test with flying colors, only to get accused of cheating by the substitute math teacher... (more)
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Magic Squares (1977) |
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| Paul Calter |
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A very unconventionally written mystery story full of well placed and well-integrated problems in mathematics, which makes this a great book to be included in a course on ‘mathematics in literature’.... (more)
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The Wright 3 (2006) |
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| Blue Balliet |
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This is the second mystery book with Calder, Petra and Tommy, where the events take place after those in “Chasing Vermeer”. The main theme in the book is the impending destruction / tear-down of... (more)
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Chasing Vermeer (2004) |
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| Blue Balliet |
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A mystery novel for 6th graders. The first of a set of 3 separate “mystery” books in the “Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew“ genre. Two children, Calder and Petra, are neighbors and classmates at a school... (more)
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Batorsag and Szerelem (2006) |
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| Ethan Canin |
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A very sensitively written story about a child, William, who grows up in the shadow of his brother, Clive, who is a math prodigy. Clive, in addition to his strong mathematical skills, is also a very... (more)
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Gallactic Alliance - Translight! (2009) |
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| Doug Farren |
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A human scientist invents a new branch of mathematics, "continuum calculus", as the basis for a stardrive. At one point, he compares his mathematical constructions with those of an alien species who have... (more)
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The Rule of Four (2004) |
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| Ian Caldwell / Dustin Thomason |
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There is an enigmatic book from the late 15th century called Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, written by an Italian monk, Francesco Colonna (available at gutenberg.org for download). The book chronicles the... (more)
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