MathFiction: Sixty Million Trillion Combinations (Isaac Asimov)

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Sixty Million Trillion Combinations (1980)

Isaac Asimov
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Tom Trumbull, one of Asimov's regular "Black Widower" mystery characters, wants to convince an eccentric mathematician (working on Goldbach's conjecture) that his secret password is not safe. Combinatorics plays a role. See also these [1, 3] other BW stories.

Contributed by Jose Brox

A Black Widowers short story with some interesting dialogues, but with a quite dumb and out-of-the-blue ending solution that spoiled out the fun for me

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The Ultimate Crime by Isaac Asimov
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Mathematical Content:
4/5 (3 votes)

Literary Quality:
3/5 (3 votes)

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Genre	Mystery,
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Medium	Short Stories,

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