| A math department chair's wife fears their house is haunted. She convinces him to bring home the goggles he invented that allow the wearer to see into the fourth dimension.
Mathematical terminology is used to explain the technology:
| (quoted from A Presence Beyond the Shadows)
As a mathematician, Nick Levy specialized in applying vector analysis to four-dimensional topology. A few years earlier, he'd been working with a colleague in the university's physics department when they figured out a way to detect a fourth physical dimension, perpendicular to the usual three...Nick's physicist colleague, Rod Koenig, built a sensor and Nick worked with programmers in the math department to map its readings into images the human brain could interpret, record them, and transmit the images to a server. These were assembled into a special pair of goggles.
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However, this explanation of how his mathematical research allows the main character to "see" scary things in his how is the entire role of math in this work of fiction. Aside from that, it is just a pretty standard ghost story.
This is one of many works of "mathematical horror" in the collection "Arithmophobia" (self-published by editor Robert Lewis). Some of the other works in that collection will have their own entries here, but others are excluded either because they did not qualify as "mathematical fiction" according to the standards of this website. Check out the book if you want to see them all. |
