Stories featuring characters who are mathematicians
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- 3 Members
- hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme, kitzyl
- Explicações
- kitzyl: Thomasina is essentially a mathematician in the making.
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17,082 membros
295 resenhas
4.2
Pontuação 6.73
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 01:37 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme
- Explicações
- hipdeep: Cryptography in WWII and the 1990s.
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5,067 membros
165 resenhas
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Pontuação 5.74
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 02:40 AM
- 2 Members
- kitzyl, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- 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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5,161 membros
86 resenhas
4.1
Pontuação 5.35
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 03:02 AM
- 2 Members
- kitzyl, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- kitzyl: Moriarty.
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- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
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93 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.4
Pontuação 4
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 08:04 AM
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1,471 membros
68 resenhas
3.2
Pontuação 3.36
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 08:00 AM
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5,882 membros
70 resenhas
½ 4.3
Pontuação 3.04
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 01:45 PM
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de Scott Turow
4,325 membros
76 resenhas
3.8
Pontuação 3.04
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 01:52 AM
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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de Alice Munro
2,259 membros
95 resenhas
3.9
Pontuação 2.83
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 01:55 AM
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117 membros
5 resenhas
3.9
Pontuação 2.83
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 01:26 PM
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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de Vikram Seth
5,744 membros
108 resenhas
4.2
Pontuação 2.68
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 02:01 AM
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- Member
- hipdeep
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94 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.3
Pontuação 2.68
Adicionado 2021-06-23, 04:48 PM
- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
- Explicações
- EerierIdyllMeme: Two of the stories ("Geometry of Soap Bubbles and Impossible Love" and "Strange Attractors") feature mathematicians
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6,913 membros
296 resenhas
4.2
Pontuação 2.56
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 02:08 AM
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12,122 membros
268 resenhas
4.1
Pontuação 2.46
Adicionado 2018-09-20, 02:15 AM
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
- Explicações
- 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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de Box Brown
251 membros
17 resenhas
½ 3.6
Pontuação 2.38
Adicionado 2021-06-23, 04:56 PM
- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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de Yiyun Li
454 membros
20 resenhas
½ 3.7
Pontuação 2.25
Adicionado 2018-09-23, 10:38 PM
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de Janna Levin
608 membros
19 resenhas
½ 3.6
Pontuação 2.2
Adicionado 2021-06-23, 09:57 PM
- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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- Member
- kitzyl
- Explicações
- 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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de Yoko Ogawa
3,226 membros
219 resenhas
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Pontuação 2.15
Adicionado 2018-10-06, 07:22 AM
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de Ian McEwan
1,289 membros
57 resenhas
½ 3.6
Pontuação 2.15
Adicionado 2021-06-23, 09:58 PM
- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
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7,540 membros
328 resenhas
4.1
Pontuação 2.11
Adicionado 2018-11-02, 01:51 AM
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1,288 membros
54 resenhas
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Pontuação 2.03
Adicionado 2019-08-27, 07:55 AM
- Member
- kitzyl
- Explicações
- 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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de Jan Potocki
1,578 membros
32 resenhas
4.1
Pontuação 2
Adicionado 2020-04-16, 07:21 PM
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3,193 membros
133 resenhas
4.2
Pontuação 1.97
Adicionado 2021-11-26, 07:18 PM
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2,462 membros
29 resenhas
4.2
Pontuação 1.94
Adicionado 2022-02-11, 05:58 AM
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102 membros
1 resenha
3.9
Pontuação 1.92
Adicionado 2022-04-25, 01:26 AM
- Member
- kitzyl
- Explicações
- 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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47 membros
½ 3.4
Pontuação 1.87
Adicionado 2023-02-12, 07:16 AM
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428 membros
28 resenhas
½ 3.7
Pontuação 1.85
Adicionado 2023-03-19, 01:29 AM
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de Alice Waters
224 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.5
Pontuação 1.83
Adicionado 2023-09-24, 08:19 AM
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309 membros
10 resenhas
3.8
Pontuação 1.81
Adicionado 2023-09-30, 09:56 AM