MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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You Don't Scare Me (2007)
John Farris
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A math grad student at Yale is haunted by the memory and undead spirit of her abusive stepfather. Using her knowledge of the mathematics of "higher dimensions", she locates the coordinates of the "netherworld" where he lives.

Contributed by sarah-marie belcastro

The writing in this book is really terrible---eye-rollingly bad every several pages. (I mean that both at the sentence level and at the plot level.) The mathematics is reasonable, though I'd think that any author who could use the phrase "Ricci flow" within the correct subfield of mathematics would also know that differential geometry is not housed within Applied Math at Yale.

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According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
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  3. Killing Time by Frank Tallis
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  5. Yesternight by Cat Winters
  6. The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons
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  8. Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
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Ratings for You Don't Scare Me:
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Mathematical Content:
3/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
1/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreHorror,
MotifAcademia, Higher/Lower Dimensions, Female Mathematicians,
TopicGeometry/Topology/Trigonometry,
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)