Mathenauts
Author | : Rudolf v. B. Rucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9780450502538 |
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Maths-based science fiction anthology.
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Author | : Rudolf v. B. Rucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9780450502538 |
Maths-based science fiction anthology.
Author | : Rudy von Bitter Rucker |
Publisher | : Arbor House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
An anthology of 20 stories exploring the weird and wonderful ramifications of mathematics and mathematicians includes authors such as G. Bear, M. Gardner, L. Niven, R. Berman, R. Sheckley, I. Asimov and others.
Author | : Jessica K. Sklar |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786489944 |
Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS all weave mathematics prominently into their storylines. Less obvious but pivotal references to the subject appear in the blockbuster TV show Lost, the cult movie The Princess Bride, and even Tolstoy's War and Peace. In this collection of new essays, contributors consider the role of math in everything from films, baseball, crossword puzzles, fantasy role-playing games, and television shows to science fiction tales, award-winning plays and classic works of literature. Revealing the broad range of intersections between mathematics and mainstream culture, this collection demonstrates that even "mass entertainment" can have a hidden depth.
Author | : Rudy Rucker |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0765327538 |
The honest and intellectually fierce autobiography of one of the most acclaimed voices in science fiction
Author | : Clifton Fadiman |
Publisher | : Copernicus |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1997-04-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
The companion volume to Fadiman's Fantasia Mathematica, this second anthology of mathematical writings is even more varied and contains stories, cartoons, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, aphorisms, and other oddments. Authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, and many other renowned figures.
Author | : Scarlett Thomas |
Publisher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1921351594 |
IF YOU KNEW A BOOK WAS CURSED, WOULD YOU READ IT? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone who's ever read it, including Lumas, has disappeared without trace. With Mr Y under her arm, Ariel is thrust into an adventure of faith, physics, love, death, and everything in between. Part gothic mystery, part time-travelling love story, The End of Mr Y lies somewhere between Shadow of the Wind and Dr Who. Scarlett Thomas sends us on a wild and irresistible quest into our deepest selves and our biggest questions.
Author | : Rudy Rucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. T. J. Dodson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3642105149 |
This treatment of differential geometry and the mathematics required for general relativity makes the subject accessible, for the first time, to anyone familiar with elementary calculus in one variable and with some knowledge of vector algebra. The emphasis throughout is on the geometry of the mathematics, which is greatly enhanced by the many illustrations presenting figures of three and more dimensions as closely as the book form will allow.
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0415974607 |
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Author | : Rudy Rucker |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2003-07-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429980079 |
Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake. Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.