This list should also include Charles Stross Laundry Files series.
The concept of high math being a gate to higher dimensions and effectively magic powers provides great setting to a witty and humorous sci-fi prose placed in modern England
Best Mathematical Science Fiction Books
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#32Greg Egan's diaspora is in this list of 12 books. They chose the novel Diaspora, but many of his short stories and novels are very mathematical. I remember stories about a toric universe, or playing football on a relativistic field (with a pseudo-Riemannian geometry)…
A big miss in this list is Christopher Priest's "Inverted world", about living in a non-Euclidean world.
I've other SF books with a of focus on math, from the "The stochastic man" to "Ninefox gambit", but they were either not enjoyable or with ridiculous mathematical contents.
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#33Some classics; 1) Flatland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland 2) Sphereland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphereland 3) Flatterland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatterland
Did you RTFA? I am guessing not, because one of your suggestions is in the list.
Always RTFA before commenting. That's what we're all here for: discussion of TFA.
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#34Some classics; 1) Flatland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland 2) Sphereland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphereland 3) Flatterland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatterland
Did you RTFA? I am guessing not, because one of your suggestions is in the list. Always RTFA before commenting. That's what we're all here for: discussion of TFA .
Don't be presumptuous; of course i read the article (such as it is).
Other than "Flatland", the other two are not that well-known and the Wikipedia pages for the books are far more informative than this "article"; hence my comment.
PS: One of the comments on the above article's webpage points to this site which seems to be an exhaustive list of "Math Fiction" books - https://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/
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#35I enjoyed Heinlein's "And He Built a Crooked House" which is a short story involving tesseracts and 4th dimensional geometry. It was published in the short stories collection "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag".
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Currently startint Book 2. Definitely agree that some of the elements are weird but the core ideas of Book 1 were really awesome!
You're in for a treat... Book two is the Empire to book one's New Hope. (And, spoiler warning: book three is, indeed, overrun with ewoks.)
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#37I really enjoyed the three body problem. At some point it became a bit ridiculous but I liked the ending.
Agreed about being in for a treat! Aww, book three is absurd but one of the most impactful books I have read. I was angry/frustrated with the ending for weeks but that just made the ideas stick better and hold more weight.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you RTFA? I am guessing not, because one of your suggestions is in the list. Always RTFA before commenting. That's what we're all here for: discussion of TFA .
Don't be presumptuous; of course i read the article (such as it is). Other than "Flatland", the other two are not that well-known and the Wikipedia pages for the books are far more informative than this "article"; hence my comment. PS: One of the comments on the above article's webpage points to this site which seems to be an exhaustive list of "Math Fiction" books - https://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/
Then why did you suggest a book that's listed in it?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't be presumptuous; of course i read the article (such as it is). Other than "Flatland", the other two are not that well-known and the Wikipedia pages for the books are far more informative than this "article"; hence my comment. PS: One of the comments on the above article's webpage points to this site which seems to be an exhaustive list of "Math Fiction" books - https://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/
Then why did you suggest a book that's listed in it?
> the Wikipedia pages for the books are far more informative than this "article"; hence my comment.