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Occam's Razor (1956) |
 | David Duncan |
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This story involves the concept of discontinuous time embedded in a sort of “Meta-Time”. Essentially, Duncan proposes the idea that True Reality evolves along Meta-Time which is broken up into smaller... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-18 17:25:26 |
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The Ultimate Analysis (1944) |
 | John Russell Fearn |
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This one is a hurriedly thrown together mish-mash of mathematical statements which make no sense when examined individually but taken together, form a breathless pulp story about a mathematician who... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-14 18:09:03 |
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Space (1911) |
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| John Buchan |
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This mystical story, as recounted by a lawyer, is about a brilliant mathematician ("an erratic genius who had written some articles in Mind on that dreary subject, the mathematical conception of infinity",... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-11 20:47:32 |
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A Matter of Mathematics (2005) |
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| Tony Ballantyne |
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A story about the attempt by the British to change the tilt of Earth's axis to create a more suitable environment for themselves and how the Americans foil it. The British have been launching incessant... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-09 18:11:47 |
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The Einstein See-Saw (1932) |
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| Miles J. Breuer |
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This is another of the hyperspace stories by Miles Breuer. This time, a mathematical physicist discovers that mattter can be tossed around in and out of space(-time) [see his papers, "A Preliminary Report... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-09 14:59:15 |
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The Eternal Wanderer (1936) |
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| Nathan Schachner |
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A magnificently pulpy story of one man, Cliff Haven’s, struggle against the tyranny of a Martian who enslaves the inner planets of the solar system. As a punishment, Cliff is sentenced to become “the... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-08 19:15:40 |
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The Dark Side of the Sun (1976) |
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| Terry Pratchett |
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This humorous science fiction novel tells the tale of Dom Salabos, who believes he is destined to become "Chairman of the Board of Widdershins and heir to riches untold", but his allies familiar with p-math... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-05 08:57:22 |
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Vampire World (Trilogy) (1993) |
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| Brian Lumley |
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In these sequels to Necroscope, the twin sons of Harry Keogh living in the remains of a black hole continue to fight vampires. One of the sons has visions of a "vortex of numbers". He seeks the assistance... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-02 19:24:13 |
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Necroscope (Series) (1992) |
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| Brian Lumley |
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Harry Keogh is a "necroscope" who can communicate with the dead. So, when omens suggest that the Möbius strip and space-time are going to be relevant to his plans in the near future, he goes straight... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-11-02 19:05:51 |
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Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies) (2006) |
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| Justina Chen Headley |
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This is a novel for young adults about a half Asian teenager who is sent to a summer Math Camp at Stanford by her overprotective mother. She enjoys the camp more than she expected to, until her mother... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-30 12:10:04 |
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The Mathematicians of Grizzly Drive (1988) |
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| Josef Skvorecky |
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A detective story, in the "hard boiled" genre, featuring Eve Adam, a sexy nightclub performer who solves crimes in her free time. In this story, she visits a house where mathematicians gather to entertain... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-29 15:14:12 |
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The Jester and the Mathematician (2000) |
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| Alan R. Gordon |
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A short historical fiction piece involving Leonardo of Pisa ("Fibonacci"). Interesting story which features Fibonacci talking briefly about his rabbit-series/sequence, his abacus-duel with Pisa's foremost... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-29 14:03:38 |
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The Finan-seer (1949) |
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| Edward L. Locke |
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This is a story about a Mathematics and an Economics professor who use game theory to beat the stock market. The university's endowment fund, having lost significant amounts in the market, is desperate... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-29 12:27:43 |
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Space Bender (1928) |
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| Edward Rementer |
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This is another story which uses the convenient device of the fourth dimension for rapid spatial transport. This time, Prof. Jason Livermore is the one who disappears entirely from the face of the earth... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-26 21:43:21 |
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God (2010) |
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| Rebecca Goldstein |
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This new novel from Goldstein, whose Strange Attractors is one of my favorite works of mathematical fiction, is set to come out in January 2010. According to the jacket copy, a woman known as "the goddess... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-26 14:09:24 |
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) |
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| Stieg Larsson |
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In this sequel to the stunningly popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the self-taught, nearly autistic, young genius, Lisbeth Salander, once again becomes involved in a thrilling mystery allied with... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-26 11:42:58 |
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The Fatal Equation (1933) |
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| Arthur Strangeland |
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This is a very well-crafted murder mystery executed quite ingeniously. A mathematical physicist - Jan Friede - sets up a system of 20+ equations which eliminate the time variable from Einstein's equations... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-21 16:17:47 |
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Hidden in Glass (1931) |
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| Paul Ernst |
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A murder mystery involving a mathematical physicist. One Professor Brainard, who is claimed to have mastered "the secret of the fourth dimension" (haven't they all in the pulps?), has a serious professional... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-21 15:45:26 |
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The Axiom of Choice (2009) |
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| David Corbett |
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An extremely well-crafted short story in which math professor coldly recounts for a detective how the bloody bodies of his wife and his student came to be in his house. It is not really a murder mystery,... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-21 15:38:19 |
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Mrs. Einstein (1998) |
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| Anna McGrail |
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It's a wonderful novel that invents a history for Einstein's illegitimate daughter, about whom little is known. In the novel, she's a mathematician who becomes obsessed with her father's refusal to acknowledge... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-21 14:47:09 |
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Old Fillikin (1982) |
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| Joan Aiken |
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A farm boy who hates his math class seemingly calls upon his grandmother's "familiar" to get revenge on his teacher.
This reads like an old fashioned ghost story, but it is the kind where you can imagine... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-20 08:52:16 |
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Fermat's Lost Theorem (1994) |
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| Jerry Oltion |
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This is a neat little story which plays on the fancy that one has found a very simple proof for Fermat's last theorem...if only one can write it down before the epiphany passes. A young mathematician... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-15 11:21:54 |
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Twisted (2004) |
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| Jonathan Kellerman |
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One of the main characters is a graduate student pursing a Ph.D. in biostatistics, who notes to police detectives that coincidences in the circumstances of several murders are statistically significant,... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-11 10:14:02 |
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A Very Good Year (1984) |
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| Jack C. Haldemann II |
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A very short fantasy-like story about Statistics. A senior statistician for Dept of Acccident Prevention describes how the law of averages appears to have failed when applied to mortality rates. In particular,... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-09 14:52:23 |
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Mad Destroyer (1930) |
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| Fletcher Pratt |
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The story is about a mathematician/astronomer who has discovered an exact solution to the multi-body problem in gravitation i.e. a formula which can easily calculate the positions and velocities of N... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-08 18:49:39 |
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The Book of Worlds (1929) |
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| Miles J. Breuer |
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Another story of 4-D from Miles Breuer, this time with Prof. Cosgrave who builds a "hyper-stereoscope" that can combine 3-dimensional views ("geometrical stereograms") from different angles into a 4-D... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-08 18:46:59 |
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The Fourth Dynasty (1936) |
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| R.R. Winterbotham |
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A confused story of a couple (Victor and Georgiana) who go into
cryogenic suspended animation for a million and a half years and wake
up in the era of the Fourth Dynasty, the age of the Kora (first... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-04 21:23:41 |
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Coconuts (1926) |
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| Ben Ames Williams |
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The story is a very nicely written tale of one man, Wadlin, whose only passion in life is mathematics - numbers, puzzles, Diophantine equations ("indeterminates"), statistics. As the author describes... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-10-01 19:38:02 |
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Psychohistorical Crisis (2001) |
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| Donald Kingsbury |
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In the far future, a group of "psychohistorians" controls the fate of humanity using the mathematical theory of "the founder" in this unauthorized "sequel" to Asimov's Foundation series. Kingsbury's lengthy... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-09-30 21:33:53 |
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Pi in the Sky (1983) |
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| Rudy Rucker |
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The story is about a family which finds an alien artifact on a beach while on vacation: a smooth cone with patterns of stripes on its surface and which produces sound in the same pattern. It turns out... (more)
Last Changed: 2009-09-30 14:26:22 |
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