a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)
Author includes the word(s): Raymond F. Jones
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entries
(Note: This page not the entire list of works of
Mathematical Fiction. To see the whole list, click here.)
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Fifty Million Monkeys (1943) |
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The story is set sometime around 12,000 AD. The use of interstellar rockets over 15 years creates a "polarization of space" which leads to a "Pioneer anomaly"-like deviations in flight paths of spacecraft.... (more) |
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The Non-Statistical Man (1956) |
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In this short story, insurance adjuster Charles Bascomb comes up against his greatest enemy: intuition. The story presents mathematics (especially statistics and logic) as one way man can deal with reality.... (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)