MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Küplerin Savasi (2021)
Ahmet Baki Yerli
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This Turkish novel for young adults appears to be a fictionalized account of the dispute between Tartaglia and Cardano over the solution to cubic equations. A nice account of the true story can be found here in Quanta Magazine, but I'm afraid I do not know anything more about Yerli's book which so far has only been published in Turkish.

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  4. The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis
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  6. The Jester and the Mathematician by Alan R. Gordon
  7. Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
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  10. Pythagorean Crimes by Tefcros Michaelides
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Categories:
GenreHistorical Fiction, Didactic, Young Adult,
MotifReal Mathematicians,
TopicAlgebra/Arithmetic/Number Theory, Real Mathematics,
MediumNovels,

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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.

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