a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)
Author includes the word(s): Boris Strugatsky
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The Gigantic Fluctuation (1973) |
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This is an oddly funny story about a man who becomes the "focus point of all miracles in the world", a "gigantic fluctuation". He somehow appears to attract extremely improbably but possible statistical... (more) |
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Monday Begins on Saturday (1966) |
 | Arkady Strugatsky / Boris Strugatsky |
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In this parody of the activity at Soviet research thinktanks, mathematics underlies the "science" of magic. Math is rarely discussed in depth and a knowledge of Russian fairy tales helps the reader to... (more) |
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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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College of Charleston)