MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Solenoid (2015)
Mircea Cartarescu
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In this surrealistic existentialist novel, a school teacher in Romania (who has much in common with the author) seeks to escape from his boring life. A solenoid built into the foundation of his new house provides him with the ability to see or travel to "higher dimensions". In addition to his own explorations into higher dimensional geometry, the fictional protagonist of this novel learns about real 19th century mathematicians George Boole, his wife Mary Everest, and their son-in-law Charles Howard Hinton. (Hinton is especially well known for his work on and advocacy of higher dimensional mathematics, and in fact is the author of a work of mathematical fiction in this database.)

As I write this review in summer 2022, the first English translation is going to be published later this year. I hope to be able to update this entry once I have had a chance to read it.

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Categories:
GenreScience Fiction,
MotifAliens, Higher/Lower Dimensions, Real Mathematicians,
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MediumNovels,

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)