MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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The Music of the Spheres (2001)
Elizabeth Redfern
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Contributed by "William E. Emba"

A highly praised (a la Caleb Carr) historical thriller set in Europe in 1795, involving lots of astronomy. This includes Laplace musing over his theorem that gravitational perturbations are bounded, and his wondering if a similar theorem applies to history.

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According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
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  2. One, True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge by John L. Casti
  3. The Three Body Problem by Catherine Shaw
  4. Pythagoras the Mathemagician by Karim El Koussa
  5. Ahmes, the Moonchild by Tefcros Michaelides
  6. Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe
  7. Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle Volume 1 by Neal Stephenson
  8. Newton's Hooke by David Pinner
  9. Shooting the Sun by Max Byrd
  10. Perelman’s Refusal [Les Refus de Grigori Perelman] by Philippe Zaouati
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Categories:
GenreHistorical Fiction,
MotifReal Mathematicians,
TopicAnalysis/Calculus/Differential, Mathematical Physics,
MediumNovels,

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