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Mathematical Fiction

a conversation by

Alex Kasman

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Istituto Superiore Mario Boella

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After reading the novel "Crypto- nomicon" in 1999 I became inte- rested in the idea of keeping track of the appearances of mathema- ticians and mathematics in works of fiction. The body of "mathe- matical fiction" I have collected since then is much larger and more diverse than I would have thought possible.  I now know of more than one thousand novels, plays, short stories, films, and comic books that feature math or mathematicians in some significant way.  Some of them are useful for helping readers better understand or appreciate mathematics. Others reveal nega- tive stereotypes of mathemati- cians or a fundamental misunder-standing about math.
or a fundamental misunderstan- ding about math. For the con- noisseur of math fiction, special treats include "fictional math" (cases in which the math descri- bed in the fiction is itself a creation of the author) and best of all are those works of fiction in which the author weaves math and human emotion together in the same way that an artist can create a beautiful sculpture out of mixed media.                           

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