Mathematics in fiction
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Mathematical Fiction
(a list compiled by Alex Kasman, much longer than the list on the present
page)
- Math in Laputa
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Infinitesimal methods in Tolstoy's War and Peace
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Wiskunde in Multatuli's Ideeën (in Dutch)
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Whitman's poem
When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer,
see also
annotation
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"Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture"
by Apostolos Doxiadis: book review by Keith Devlin
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Chaos, Fractals, and Arcadia
(an animated description
by Robert L. Devaney
of some of the mathematical ideas lurking in
the background of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia)
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(in Dutch)
De macht van het getal,
nummer 100 van Raster (tijdschrift in boekvorm), verschenen in 2002
bij De Bezige Bij.
Lees korte inhoudsopgave.
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William Wordsworth, the stone and the shell.
See lines 50-140 in
The Prelude, Book Fifth.
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(in Dutch)
T.H. Koornwinder,
Wiskunde en Fictie: enige voorbeelden en kanttekeningen,
in: Liber Amicorum Piet van der Houwen, Mathematisch Centrum,
Amsterdam, 20 October 2000.
Download pdf file, 6 pages.
to Tom Koornwinder's home page
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