Stories featuring characters who are mathematicians
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- 3 Members
- hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme, kitzyl
- Explanations
- kitzyl: Thomasina is essentially a mathematician in the making.
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- 2 Members
- hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme
- Explanations
- hipdeep: Cryptography in WWII and the 1990s.
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- 2 Members
- kitzyl, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- kitzyl: Tuesday Next is a mathematician whose more well-known works include solving Fermat's Last Theorem and proving that there are more odd numbers than there are even.
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5,165 members
86 reviews
4.1
Score 5.35
Added 2018-09-20, 03:02 AM
- 2 Members
- kitzyl, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- kitzyl: Moriarty.
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- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
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1,472 members
68 reviews
3.2
Score 3.36
Added 2018-09-20, 08:00 AM
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5,883 members
70 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 3.04
Added 2018-09-20, 01:45 PM
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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- Member
- hipdeep
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94 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Score 2.68
Added 2021-06-23, 04:48 PM
- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
- Explanations
- EerierIdyllMeme: Two of the stories ("Geometry of Soap Bubbles and Impossible Love" and "Strange Attractors") feature mathematicians
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6,925 members
297 reviews
4.2
Score 2.56
Added 2018-09-20, 02:08 AM
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12,127 members
268 reviews
4.1
Score 2.46
Added 2018-09-20, 02:15 AM
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
- Explanations
- EerierIdyllMeme: One of the characters is known as "The Topologist", and some topological/mathematical/graph theoretical way of thinking seems to make its way into the narration around her
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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by Yiyun Li
456 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 2.25
Added 2018-09-23, 10:38 PM
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- Member
- kitzyl
- Explanations
- kitzyl: In Black Vodka, while waiting for a date at the bar, the protagonist sees "an elderly woman... scribbling some sort of mathematical equation" and "began to worry that somewhere else in the world, another mathematician would pick up on those thoughts and ... find a strategy to solve the equation before she did."
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by Yoko Ogawa
3,232 members
220 reviews
4
Score 2.15
Added 2018-10-06, 07:22 AM
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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1,288 members
54 reviews
4
Score 2.03
Added 2019-08-27, 07:55 AM
- Member
- kitzyl
- Explanations
- kitzyl: Li-Ling/Marie, the protagonist is a professor of mathematics at Simon Fraser University in Canada. After finishing her PhD at age 25, she got a bunch of job offers due to a very well-received paper she published in Inventions Mathematics. She teaches Galois theory, calculus, and number theory.
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by Jan Potocki
1,580 members
32 reviews
4.1
Score 2
Added 2020-04-16, 07:21 PM
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3,207 members
134 reviews
4.2
Score 1.97
Added 2021-11-26, 07:18 PM
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2,464 members
29 reviews
4.2
Score 1.94
Added 2022-02-11, 05:58 AM
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102 members
1 review
3.9
Score 1.92
Added 2022-04-25, 01:26 AM
- Member
- kitzyl
- Explanations
- kitzyl: Mikhail Konstantinovich Polivanov (The Column in the Shadows) is described as a mathematician. Natasha Svetlova, Andrei Tyurin Galina Tyurina, and Sergei Petrovich Dyomushkin (A New Network) is "completing a postgraduate degree in maths", "a gifted and successful mathematician", "a brilliant algebraist", and "also a mathematician" respectively.
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47 members
½ 3.4
Score 1.87
Added 2023-02-12, 07:16 AM
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428 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 1.85
Added 2023-03-19, 01:29 AM
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by Alice Waters
220 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 1.83
Added 2023-09-24, 08:19 AM
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