a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)
Author includes the word(s): Ian Watson
2 matches found out of 1646
entries
(Note: This page not the entire list of works of
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Immune Dreams (1978) |
 | Ian Watson |
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A creepy but interesting story that combines the genetics of cancer, the neurology of dreaming, immunology, and the mathematics of catastrophe theory (a precursor of what we now call "chaos theory"). ... (more) |
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Nanunculus (1997) |
 | Ian Watson |
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A mathematician wishes to commit suicide, but is pestered by an automated visitor from the future programmed to make certain that the mathematician discovers the key to time travel before he does.
Appears in the collection The Great Escape
and first published in Interzone January 1997.
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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)