MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Available Free Online (184 entries)
Collection (17 entries)
Films (121 entries)
Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga (39 entries)
Novels (732 entries)
Picture Book (9 entries)
Plays (68 entries)
Short Stories (638 entries)
Television Series or Episode (46 entries)

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Adventure/Espionage (125 entries)
Children's Literature (69 entries)
Didactic (127 entries)
Fantasy (182 entries)
Historical Fiction (246 entries)
Horror (46 entries)
Humorous (305 entries)
Mystery (190 entries)
Romance (44 entries)
Science Fiction (612 entries)
Young Adult (65 entries)
Not Science-Fiction, Fantasy or Horror (843 entries)

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Academia (279 entries)
Ada Lovelace (11 entries)
Alan Turing (33 entries)
Aliens (128 entries)
Anti-social Mathematicians (159 entries)
Autism (31 entries)
Cool/Heroic Mathematicians (57 entries)
Evil mathematicians (66 entries)
Female Mathematicians (298 entries)
Future Prediction through Math (54 entries)
Genius (66 entries)
Higher/Lower Dimensions (96 entries)
Isaac Newton (16 entries)
Kurt Gödel (48 entries)
Math as Beautiful/Exciting/Useful (100 entries)
Math as Cold/Dry/Useless (51 entries)
Math Education (159 entries)
Mental Illness (106 entries)
Mobius Strip/Nonorientability (40 entries)
Music (27 entries)
Prodigies (109 entries)
Proving Theorems (159 entries)
Real Mathematicians (192 entries)
Religion (142 entries)
Romance (277 entries)
Sherlock Holmes (19 entries)
Sonya Kovalevskaya (6 entries)
Time Travel (86 entries)
War (78 entries)

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Algebra/Arithmetic/Number Theory (248 entries)
Analysis/Calculus/Differential (108 entries)
Chaos/Fractals (78 entries)
Computers/Cryptography (157 entries)
Fictional Mathematics (62 entries)
Geometry/Topology/Trigonometry (273 entries)
Infinity (63 entries)
Logic/Set Theory (128 entries)
Mathematical Finance (47 entries)
Mathematical Physics (203 entries)
Probability/Statistics (102 entries)
Real Mathematics (200 entries)

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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)