MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Visitors from Oz : The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman (1999)
Martin Gardner
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You wouldn't believe it, but the famous popular math writer produced a sequel to the Oz books in which Dorothy travels to New York City through a Klein bottle (built out of two Mobius strips by the same fellow who built the Tin Man). I have not read the book, but it apparently involves a mathematical puzzle of some sort.

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Works Similar to Visitors from Oz : The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. Science Fiction Puzzle Tales by Martin Gardner
  2. Puzzles from Other Worlds by Martin Gardner
  3. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster / Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)
  4. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
  5. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
  6. The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
  7. Lost in the Math Museum by Colin Adams
  8. Matrices by Steven Nightingale
  9. Bonnie's Story: A Blonde's Guide to Mathematics by Janis Hill
  10. Danny’s Inferno by Albert Cowdrey
Ratings for Visitors from Oz : The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman:
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Mathematical Content:
4/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
2/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreHumorous, Fantasy,
MotifMobius Strip/Nonorientability,
TopicGeometry/Topology/Trigonometry,
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.

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)