Stories featuring characters who are mathematicians

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2,707 members
54 reviews
½ 4.3
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hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme, kitzyl
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kitzyl: Thomasina is essentially a mathematician in the making.
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16,999 members
294 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme
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hipdeep: Cryptography in WWII and the 1990s.
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5,047 members
165 reviews
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2 Members
kitzyl, ManWithAnAgenda
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kitzyl: Tuesday Next is a mathematician whose more well-known works include solving Fermat's Last Theorem and proving that there are more odd numbers than there are even.
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5,102 members
85 reviews
4.1
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kitzyl, ManWithAnAgenda
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kitzyl: Moriarty.
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1,469 members
71 reviews
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93 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: The main character, an academic mathematician, tries to solve an historic unsolved problem, and seems to succeed where his colleagues and many others have failed.
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8,869 members
352 reviews
3.8
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Tengo, a protagonist, is a mathematician who spurned academia to teach at a cram school.
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1,463 members
67 reviews
3.2
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: By an author with a degree in mathematical logic and about a mathematician involved in a string of murders whose clues are geometrical forms.
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5,861 members
70 reviews
½ 4.3
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hipdeep
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hipdeep: Really, the whole Baroque Cycle. Newton, Liebnitz, and the calculus, as well as monetary theory.
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4,303 members
76 reviews
3.8
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Barbara, the protagonist's wife, is a mathematician, which is not the only word beginning with m that can describe her.
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11 members
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2,245 members
95 reviews
3.9
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: The title story is based on the life of Sophia Kovalevsky, one of the great pioneers for women in mathematics (in analysis AND a student of Weierstrass, no less).
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115 members
5 reviews
3.9
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hipdeep
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hipdeep: Alan Turing
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12 members
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5,717 members
108 reviews
4.2
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Various minor/cameo characters at the university are mathematicians.
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978 members
15 reviews
4
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hipdeep
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92 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
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EerierIdyllMeme
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EerierIdyllMeme: Two of the stories ("Geometry of Soap Bubbles and Impossible Love" and "Strange Attractors") feature mathematicians
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6,901 members
293 reviews
4.2
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Odenigbo is a mathematican and also a morally weak man.
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2,284 members
103 reviews
3.9
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12,059 members
266 reviews
4.1
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Mrs Sen, of the story Mrs Sen, her husband is a mathematician and I think remains unseen in the story.
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78 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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EerierIdyllMeme
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EerierIdyllMeme: One of the characters is known as "The Topologist", and some topological/mathematical/graph theoretical way of thinking seems to make its way into the narration around her
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252 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
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4 members
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8,950 members
162 reviews
3.9
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453 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: In Kindness, Moyan is said to be a maths teacher. No other maths-related information is given though.
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605 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
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126 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: In Black Vodka, while waiting for a date at the bar, the protagonist sees "an elderly woman... scribbling some sort of mathematical equation" and "began to worry that somewhere else in the world, another mathematician would pick up on those thoughts and ... find a strategy to solve the equation before she did."
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3,195 members
217 reviews
4
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Unread but I think the professor is one of mathematics.
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1,267 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
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7,296 members
326 reviews
4.1
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Unread but apparently one of the characters, Jude, pursued and obtained a Masters in Mathematics from MIT.
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179 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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1,807 members
74 reviews
3.8
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Howard Small's father is mentioned to be a maths professor.
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1,271 members
54 reviews
4
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Li-Ling/Marie, the protagonist is a professor of mathematics at Simon Fraser University in Canada. After finishing her PhD at age 25, she got a bunch of job offers due to a very well-received paper she published in Inventions Mathematics. She teaches Galois theory, calculus, and number theory.
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1,569 members
32 reviews
4.1
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Velasquez and his father are mathematicians, associating via letters and treatises with the famous mathematicians of the day (the Bernoullis, Newton, etc).
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3,099 members
131 reviews
4.2
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Carole and Bummi both have a degree in mathematics.
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2,447 members
29 reviews
4.2
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Nerzhin is introduced as a mathematician in chapter 5 and later described as "responsible for the mathematical programming of these tests... he hee then written a monograph on the methods"
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102 members
1 review
3.9
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: Mikhail Konstantinovich Polivanov (The Column in the Shadows) is described as a mathematician. Natasha Svetlova, Andrei Tyurin Galina Tyurina, and Sergei Petrovich Dyomushkin (A New Network) is "completing a postgraduate degree in maths", "a gifted and successful mathematician", "a brilliant algebraist", and "also a mathematician" respectively.
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761 members
23 reviews
3.8
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: "As I knew that [Mr Annett's] brother was a professor of mathematics at one of the northern universities and occasionally brought out books with such titles as 'The Quadrilateral Theory and its Relation to the Quantitative Binomial Cosine',..."
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47 members
½ 3.4
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: "George is a mathematician who is interested in ideas from the, well, less logical side of society."
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425 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: "... Rupert Sheffield, who was a code-breaker and mathematician... We are in Melbourne for him to give his mathematical wisdom to the masses." p13. "The speaker was introduced by a small, old professor of mathematics from the university of Cambridge." p69
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216 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: "Claude [Labro]... was a graduate student at the university, doing research in applied mathematics." p157
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297 members
10 reviews
3.9
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kitzyl
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kitzyl: p355 "Heather's father, Traill, was the retired professor of mathematics at the military college of Duntroon"