Timeline for Fiction books about mathematicians?
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| Apr 7 at 0:34 | comment | added | David White | "His master's voice" was previously mentioned: mathoverflow.net/a/101659/11540 | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 8:29 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 9:16 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | English version of the poem, Love and Tensor Algebra (I find it magnificently rendered, for a translation): people.ee.duke.edu/~wrankin/misc/tensor.html. Incidentally, it's one of Google's first results for "tensor algebra". | |
| Oct 4, 2012 at 11:23 | comment | added | Willie Wong | ... and is one of the readings when I got married. | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 18:33 | comment | added | Rafał Gruszczyński | It's in "Trurl's Electronic Bard". | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 14:19 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | In one of the stories of "The Cyberiad" Trurl constructs a machine to compose verse. One of the poems is a love poem using mathematical terms (almost exclusively). | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 10:51 | history | answered | Rafał Gruszczyński | CC BY-SA 3.0 |