MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Surfing through Hyperspace (2001)
Clifford Pickover
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Contributed by Cliff Pickover

FBI agents investigate the disappearance of people abducted into the fourth dimension. Along the way, the agents learn about degrees of freedom, quaternions, nonorientable surfaces, mathematics of hyperspheres, and numerous other mathematics relating to higher spatial geometries.

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Categories:
GenreScience Fiction, Didactic,
MotifHigher/Lower Dimensions, Religion, Mobius 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.

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