MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Together Tea (2013)
Marjan Kamali
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As a young woman in Iran, Darya dreamed of being a math professor and proving a theorem, but instead she is an immigrant in New York with a family and a job at a bank. She gets to know an American man who attracts her in a way her husband does not. And, she starts a weekly "math camp" at which she gets together with a small group of friends to work on algebra and calculus. The the plot of this novel follows those story lines (and also her relationship with her daughter), but mostly this is a book about being happy with the things in life that are perhaps not exactly what you would have chosen.

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Works Similar to Together Tea
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. The Theory of Death by Faye Kellerman
  2. After Math by Denise Grover Swank
  3. The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper
  4. Miss Havilland by Gay Daly
  5. Divide Me By Zero by Lara Vapnyar
  6. The Helpline by Katherine Collette
  7. The Invention of Ana [Forestillinger om Ana Ivan] by Mikkel Rosengaard
  8. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
  9. The Banana Girls by Karim F. Hirji
  10. Infinite Sum by Sheila Deeth
Ratings for Together Tea:
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Mathematical Content:
2/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
3/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
Genre
MotifFemale Mathematicians, Math Education,
TopicMathematical Finance,
MediumNovels,

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Where are the new works of mathematical fiction?: As you can see from this chronological listing, this database includes many works of mathematical fiction for each year from 1990 to 2025. Strangely, only two are listed for 2026, so far. Either less mathematical fiction is being published than in previous years or I'm just having more trouble finding it. If you know of any works of fiction that should be added to this list, especially recently published ones, please let me know. (Keep in mind that I do not include self-published works or children's fiction that just covers elementary mathematical concepts.) Thanks!

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)