Mathematics in fiction

• Mathematical Fiction (a list compiled by Alex Kasman, much longer than the list on the present page)

• Math in Laputa
• Infinitesimal methods in Tolstoy's War and Peace
• Wiskunde in Multatuli's Ideeën (in Dutch)
• Whitman's poem When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer, see also annotation
• "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" by Apostolos Doxiadis: book review by Keith Devlin
• 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)
• (in Dutch) De macht van het getal, nummer 100 van Raster (tijdschrift in boekvorm), verschenen in 2002 bij De Bezige Bij. Lees korte inhoudsopgave.
• William Wordsworth, the stone and the shell. See lines 50-140 in The Prelude, Book Fifth.

• (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.

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