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2006 novel by Rudy Rucker
Mathematicians in Love
First edition
AuthorRudy Rucker
Cover artistJ. P. Fruchet
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherTor Books (USA)
Publication dateDecember 2006
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages364
ISBN0-7653-1584-X (first edition, hardback)
OCLC64442767
Dewey Decimal813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3568.U298 M38 2006

Mathematicians in Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Rudy Rucker.

Plot summary

Bela and Paul are working towards their Ph.Ds under the direction of a mad math genius named Roland Haut, they invent a para-computer called "GoBubble" that predicts the future. They are both involved in a love triangle with Alma.

Reception

Publishers Weekly in their review said that "Rucker cleverly pulls off a romantic comedy about mathematicians in love" and that "While most of the mathematical flights may stun hapless mathophobes, Rucker's wild characters, off-the-wall situations and wicked political riffs prove that writing SF spoofs, like Bela's rock music avocation, "beats the hell out of publishing a math paper." Carl Hays in his review for Booklist said that "in a riotously twisting plot, complete with hypertunnels, alien shellfish from a parallel universe, and an improbable resolution to the threesome’s romantic dilemma, Rucker pulls out all the stops for one of his most entertaining yarns to date."

References

  1. "Mathematicians in Love". Publishers Weekly. 253 (42): 36. October 23, 2006. ISSN 0000-0019.
  2. Hays, Carl (December 1, 2006). "Mathematicians in Love". Booklist. 103 (7): 33. ISSN 0006-7385.

External links

Works of Rudy Rucker
Novels
The Ware Tetralogy
Transreal novels
  • White Light (1980)
  • Spacetime Donuts (1981)
  • The Sex Sphere (1983)
  • The Secret of Life (1985)
  • The Hacker and the Ants (1994) (Revised 'Version 2.0' 2003)
  • Saucer Wisdom (1999) novel marketed as non-fiction
  • The Big Aha (2013)
Other Novels
Short fiction collections
  • The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka (1983)
  • Transreal!, also includes some non-fiction essays (1991)
  • Gnarl! (2000), complete short stories
  • Mad Professor (2006)
  • Complete Stories (2012)
  • Transreal Cyberpunk, with Bruce Sterling (2016)
Non-fiction
As author
  • Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (1977)
  • Infinity and the Mind (1982)
  • The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality (1984)
  • Mind Tools (1987)
  • All the Visions (1991),
  • Seek! (1999)
  • Software Engineering and Computer Games (2002)
  • The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me about Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and how to be Happy (2005)
  • Nested Scrolls (2011)
  • Collected Essays (2012)
  • Journals 1990-2014 (2015)
As editor


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