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a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

Author includes the word(s): Italo Calvino
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(Note: This page not the entire list of works of Mathematical Fiction. To see the whole list, click here.)

Numbers in the Dark (La notte dei numeri) (1990)

Italo Calvino

A boy looking around the huge office building where his mother works meets an old accountant who now works with computers but reveals to him an undiscovered arithmetic error made back in one of the company's... (more)

Quanto scommettiamo ("How much do you want to bet?") (1965)

Italo Calvino

The story is about two beings, living since the beginning of the universe (one of them, the protagonist of the book, is "old Qfwfq" - it's not a misprint -, a mysterious being that claims to have witnessed... (more)

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Exciting News: The total number of works of mathematical fiction listed in this database recently reached a milestone. The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire. Thanks to Vijay Fafat for writing the summary of that work (and so many others). I am also grateful to everyone who has contributed to this website. Heck, I'm grateful to everyone who visited the site. Thank you!

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