MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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The Company of Strangers (2001)
Robert Wilson
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A bittersweet romance/thriller about a young woman mathematician in Portugal spying for the British during World War II. There is a lot of interesting stuff in this novel if you're looking at the romance or the history (especially the attempts of the Nazis to develop nuclear weapons), but as far as math goes I'm afraid there's not much more than a few uninspired descriptions of why our heroine chose to go into mathematics.

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Works Similar to The Company of Strangers
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
  2. Sekret Enigmy by Roman Wionczek
  3. Sebastian by David Greene (director)
  4. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  5. Enigma by Robert Harris / Tom Stoppard
  6. V2: A Novel of World War II by Robert Harris
  7. En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor) by Jorge Volpi
  8. The Amber Shadows by Lucy Ribchester
  9. The Number of Love (The Codebreakers) by Roseanna M. White
  10. The Sabre Squadron by Simon Raven
Ratings for The Company of Strangers:
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Mathematical Content:
1/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
3/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreHistorical Fiction, Adventure/Espionage,
MotifWar,
Topic
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)