MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Brain Dead (1990)
Charles Beaumont (writer) / Adam Simon (director)
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A nightmarish, reality bending horror movie about a brain surgeon whose services are obtained to retrieve corporate secrets from the mind of a mathematician who has become a homicidal maniac.

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According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
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  2. The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons
  3. Pi by Darren Aronofsky (director)
  4. Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpah (Director)
  5. Real Numbers by Liz Kaufman
  6. Solid Geometry by Ian McEwan
  7. Unknown Things by Reginald Bretnor
  8. Manifold Thoughts by Patrick Freivald
  9. Trains Passing by Martin Ziegler
  10. Lost and Found by Joe Stout
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Categories:
GenreHorror,
MotifEvil mathematicians, Anti-social Mathematicians, Mental Illness,
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MediumFilms,

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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)