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Love Letters for Other People (2025) |
 | Shaylin Gandhi |
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After losing her "dream job" as a mathematician at a non-profit organization in New York City, Aubrey returns to her small Indiana hometown and gets reacquainted with the men who were her high school boyfriends.... (more)
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Odinokiy igrok [Lonely Player] (1995) |
 | Vladimir Basov (director) / Olga Basova (director) / Eduard Volodarskiy (writer) |
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A promising young mathematician winds up in debt and in trouble with the Russian mob when his formula fails to successfully predict the winners of horse races as expected.
Some people view this movie... (more)
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Mathematische Spaziergaenge mit Emmy Noether [Diving into Math with Emmy Noether] (2019) |
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| Sandra Schueddekopf / Anita Zieher |
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A play about Emmy Noether written for the centenary anniversary of her Habilitation. The premiere performance was at Freie Universitaet Berlin but it has since been performed in Vienna and at many locations in the United States.
Thanks to Mats Vermeeren for bringing it to my attention. (more)
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Scout's Progress (2001) |
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| Sharon Lee / Steve Miller |
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This novel blends science fiction and regency romance, taking place on the planet Liad where society is based on strict rules of class and clan.
The main character, Aelliana, is a math teacher at the... (more)
Last Changed: 2026-06-03 16:15:16 |
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EPICAC (1950) |
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| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
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In this Cold War update to Cyrano de Bergerac by one of the 20th century's great American authors, a male mathematician obtains the help of a military computer to win the heart of the female mathematician... (more)
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Some Other, Better Otto (2003) |
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| Deborah Eisenberg |
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This literary short story is not really about mathematics; it is about Otto and his partner dealing with family dynamics at Thanksgiving. Otto's sister, Sharon, happens to be a math genius who suffers... (more)
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Blank! (1957) |
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| Isaac Asimov |
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August Pointdexter accuses his colleague, Dr. Edward Barron, of being overly-confident in the safety of the time machine he has just invented. The story does not specifically say that Barron is a mathematician,... (more)
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The Unsent Letters of Blaise and Jacqueline Pascal (2018) |
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| Kelsey Peterson |
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This work of fiction consists of letters exchanged between mathematician Blaise Pascal and his sister Jacqueline. They discuss magic squares, religion, Pascal's mechanical adding machine, and the idea that more powerful automated calculators will someday be invented.
Published as: Conjunctions, No. 71, A Cabinet of Curiosity (Fall/November 2018), pp. 201-208 (more)
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Conservation Laws (2008) |
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| Vandana Singh |
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In this short story, odd anomalies that initially defy scientific explanation seem to support an new theory of mathematical physics positing the existence of "mirror universes". One character is a mathematician... (more)
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Logical Conclusion (2026) |
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| Robert Dawson |
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A short story based on the famous anecdote that Kurt Gödel found a logical flaw in the US Constitution while studying it to become an American citizen. But, this version of the story, in addition... (more)
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Mrs. Einstein (1998) |
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| Anna McGrail |
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It's a wonderful novel that invents a history for Einstein's illegitimate daughter, about whom little is known. In the novel, she's a mathematician who becomes obsessed with her father's refusal to acknowledge... (more)
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Murder at King's Crossing (2024) |
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| Andrea Penrose |
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The mathematical inclinations of the victim in this murder mystery are apparent right from the first page. Lost in calculations, Jasper Milton mutters to himself about "equations that can be put to practical... (more)
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The Puzzle Master (2023) |
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| Danielle Trussoni |
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Mike Brink, a high school "jock" who developed genius-level mental abilities after being tackled in a football game, gets caught up in a dangerous situation when he tries to help a woman in prison for... (more)
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The Teachers Lounge [Das Lehrerzimmer] (2023) |
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| Ilker Çatak (director and writer) / Johannes Duncker (writer) |
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The film concerns an idealistic young teacher, Carla Nowak, who teaches 7th graders at a German gymnasium which has been plagued by a series of thefts.
Early in the film, we see Nowak challenge her... (more)
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Liceenii [The Graduates] (1986) |
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| Nicolae Corjos (Director) / George Sovu (Writer) |
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This Romanian coming-of-age movie from the Ceausescu era follows a group of high school students. Math class with a strict instructor nicknamed "Isocel" (i.e. "isosceles") is just one of the many adolescent... (more)
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Cartesius (1974) |
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| Roberto Rosselini / Luciano Scaffa / Marcella Mariani |
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A two-part TV special by the famous Italian director Roberto Rosselini about the life of René Descartes. Although it mostly presents Descartes as a philosopher rather than as a mathematician, the film... (more)
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You and Whose Army? (2020) |
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| Greg Egan |
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This Greg Egan story is about quadruplets who share memories. One of the brothers is a math teacher and two are grad students working on theses in different mathematical subdisciplines. The story is... (more)
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Understudies (2025) |
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| Greg Egan |
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In this short story, a group of young people who cannot afford expensive AI implants try to figure out how they will compete in the marketplace with those who can. Their plan involves getting those richer... (more)
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Fatal Gambit [Memoria] (2023) |
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| David Lagercrantz |
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There really is almost no mathematical content to this novel from the series featuring the protagonists Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas. Chess is of much greater importance to the plot than is mathematics.... (more)
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True Love and Other Impossible Odds (2024) |
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| Christina Li |
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As the subtitle says, this is a "Contemporary YA Romance About Grief, College, and Attraction Beyond Algorithms".
The protagonist, Grace Tang, is a college freshman who creates a mathematical model... (more)
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A Calendar of Chaos (1991) |
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| G. David Nordley |
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This is a murder mystery which takes place at "the Chaos Institute, a sort of
retreat for theoretical mathematicians
concerned with the long-term behavior
of hypersensitive systems."
The institute... (more)
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The Life of Chuck (2025) |
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| Stephen King (author) / Mike Flannagan (screenplay and director) |
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This excellent 2025 film did not get a lot of attention during its brief run in movie theaters. That may partly be because it is difficult to say much about the plot without spoilers. Consequently, I... (more)
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A Mathematician's Guide to Being Normal (2025) |
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| Sam E. Sutin |
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High school students worry about being "normal", in the sense of being like other kids. The protagonist of this story handles many of the problems of adolescence by (metaphorically) applying various technical... (more)
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Futurama (Episode: The Numberland Gap) (2025) |
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| Ken Walsh (writer) / Andrew Han (director) |
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In this episode, the Planet Express crew travel though a hole in space (the titular "Numberland Gap") to a universe of abstraction inhabitted by rational numbers.
Having human characters interact with... (more)
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Three Days and a Child [Shlosha Yamim VeYeled] (1965) |
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| Abraham B. Yehoshua |
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Dov, an Israeli mathematics graduate student, watches the young child of a woman he knew at a kibbutz. Unsure if the child is his, he alternates between loving the child as he still loves the woman and... (more)
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Yarn Theory (2025) |
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| Marie Vibbert |
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Many works of science fiction concern the use of mathematics for communication with extraterrestrial being. (See the list of similar works below for some examples.) Madame Defarge in the Charles Dickens... (more)
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The Hangman's Brother (2023) |
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| David Sheskin |
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This short story begins with the following odd setup:
Minutes before his execution for blasphemy the brilliant Pakistani mathematician Zahid Abidi whispered into the ear of the hangman who would fasten... (more)
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Knots (2022) |
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| David Sheskin |
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After a quote about knots from Wikipedia, this short story begins with this odd setup:
Minutes before his execution for blasphemy a brilliant Iranian mathematician whispered into the right ear of... (more)
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