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a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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

Old Fillikin (1982)

Joan Aiken

A farm boy who hates his math class seemingly calls upon his grandmother's "familiar" to get revenge on his teacher. This reads like an old fashioned ghost story, but it is the kind where you can imagine... (more)

The Shadow Guests (1980)

Joan Aiken

After his mother's death, a boy goes to live with his aunt, a mathematician, in her haunted English house where he meets the ghosts of his ancestors and learns about his family's curse. The mathematician... (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 .

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)