MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

Home All New Browse Search About

...
Still She Haunts Me (2001)
Katie Roiphe
...

A novel about the life of Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). I have not read it, and it most certainly focuses more on his affections for Alice than on his mathematics, but I suppose there must be at least some math in it! Please let me know if you've read it.

Contributed by leila

Including the Law of gravity, and other bits of equations; these relate in 'Stll she Haunts me'- to Charles Dodgson's feeling of seperation and his obsession with alice. This is a beautifully written novel, but don't get your hopes up if you're reading this for the mathematical value.

More information about this work can be found at www.amazon.com.
(Note: This is just one work of mathematical fiction from the list. To see the entire list or to see more works of mathematical fiction, return to the Homepage.)

Works Similar to Still She Haunts Me
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. Los crĂ­menes de Alicia [The Alice Murders / The Oxford Brotherhood] by Guillermo Martinez
  2. Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
  3. Pythagoras the Mathemagician by Karim El Koussa
  4. Ahmes, the Moonchild by Tefcros Michaelides
  5. Two Moons by Thomas Mallon
  6. The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern
  7. One, True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge by John L. Casti
  8. Shooting the Sun by Max Byrd
  9. Perelman’s Refusal [Les Refus de Grigori Perelman] by Philippe Zaouati
  10. Symmetry and the Expatriate by Tefcros Michaelides
Ratings for Still She Haunts Me:
RatingsHave you seen/read this work of mathematical fiction? Then click here to enter your own votes on its mathematical content and literary quality or send me comments to post on this Webpage.
Mathematical Content:
1/5 (1 votes)
..
Literary Quality:
3/5 (1 votes)
..

Categories:
GenreHistorical Fiction,
MotifReal Mathematicians,
Topic
MediumNovels,

Home All New Browse Search About

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)