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Author includes the word(s): Helga Königsdorf 3 matches found out of 1646 entries (Note: This page not the entire list of works of Mathematical Fiction. To see the whole list, click here.)

Im Schatten des Regenbogens (1993) Helga Königsdorf Desillusioned after the fall of communism, several academicans are willlessly "abgewickelt" (read: annexed and thrown onto the scrap heap) by the Western "invaders". Contains a few references to her old "Lemma 1", a mention of the Mandelbrot set and a short discussion of the pattern paradox (1,2,3,4,5,6 in lottery is as probable as any other combination drawn). (more)

Krise [Crisis] (1978) Helga Königsdorf A pure mathematician at an East German research facility has already moved (not entirely by choice) to a technical institute when his paper on a crisis ["Krise"] in number theory is published. So, the... (more)

Lemma 1 (1978) Helga Königsdorf This short story by an East German author concerns a mathematics graduate student who realizes right before her thesis defense that Lemma 1 (the initial small step on which the rest of her results depend)... (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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