MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World (1995)
Clifford Pickover
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Contributed by Cliff Pickover

Devoted to a society of mathematicians living in a subterranean chamber of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. Status in their societies is determined by the beauty of their fractal dreams. Fractal weapons, chaos theory, the Lyapunov exponent, and strange attractors are featured.

Contributed by John R. Drum

This is a step down from Gleick's Chaos book. It has a similar target audience of those who enjoy science books written for the general public. It is a science fiction novel that introduces basic ideas related to nonlinear dynamics. There is a romantic interaction between a human and an extraterrestrial as a part of the narrative.

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Works Similar to Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. Surfing through Hyperspace by Clifford Pickover
  2. The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Edge of Time by Clifford Pickover
  3. Globión's Whimsical Shape (La Caprichosa Forma de Globión) by Alejandro Illanes Mejía
  4. Turing (A Novel About Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou
  5. Dude, can you count? by Christian Constanda
  6. The Kissing Number by Ian Stewart
  7. Conversations on Mathematics with a Visitor from Outer Space by David Ruelle
  8. Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe by Dionys Burger
  9. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  10. The Turing Option by Harry Harrison / Marvin Minksy
Ratings for Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World:
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Mathematical Content:
4/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
3/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreScience Fiction, Didactic,
MotifAliens,
TopicChaos/Fractals,
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)