MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Available Free Online (191 entries)
Collection (18 entries)
Films (127 entries)
Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga (41 entries)
Novels (738 entries)
Picture Book (9 entries)
Plays (70 entries)
Short Stories (658 entries)
Television Series or Episode (48 entries)

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Adventure/Espionage (129 entries)
Children's Literature (73 entries)
Didactic (132 entries)
Fantasy (186 entries)
Historical Fiction (251 entries)
Horror (46 entries)
Humorous (313 entries)
Mystery (191 entries)
Romance (47 entries)
Science Fiction (625 entries)
Young Adult (67 entries)
Not Science-Fiction, Fantasy or Horror (864 entries)

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Academia (285 entries)
Ada Lovelace (12 entries)
Alan Turing (33 entries)
Aliens (131 entries)
Anti-social Mathematicians (160 entries)
Autism (32 entries)
Cool/Heroic Mathematicians (58 entries)
Evil mathematicians (68 entries)
Female Mathematicians (308 entries)
Future Prediction through Math (54 entries)
Genius (68 entries)
Higher/Lower Dimensions (98 entries)
Isaac Newton (16 entries)
Kurt Gödel (49 entries)
Math as Beautiful/Exciting/Useful (100 entries)
Math as Cold/Dry/Useless (51 entries)
Math Education (163 entries)
Mental Illness (110 entries)
Mobius Strip/Nonorientability (41 entries)
Music (28 entries)
Prodigies (111 entries)
Proving Theorems (163 entries)
Real Mathematicians (197 entries)
Religion (145 entries)
Romance (284 entries)
Sherlock Holmes (19 entries)
Sonya Kovalevskaya (6 entries)
Time Travel (88 entries)
War (78 entries)

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Algebra/Arithmetic/Number Theory (254 entries)
Analysis/Calculus/Differential (108 entries)
Chaos/Fractals (80 entries)
Computers/Cryptography (160 entries)
Fictional Mathematics (62 entries)
Geometry/Topology/Trigonometry (283 entries)
Infinity (64 entries)
Logic/Set Theory (133 entries)
Mathematical Finance (47 entries)
Mathematical Physics (205 entries)
Probability/Statistics (104 entries)
Real Mathematics (202 entries)

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook .

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)