Mathenauts

Name: Mathenauts
ISBN: 0877958904

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lukas · Dec 13, 2011 · Recommends

Anyone that liked that story should pick up a copy of Mathenauts - an anthology of Mathematics themed short stories put together by Rudy Rucker. Many of the stories have a similar feel to that one. You can find it on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Mathenauts-Mathematical-Wonder-Rudy-Ru...
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jonjacky · Jul 4, 2019 · Recommends

…nuclear war. So these are period pieces but you still might enjoy them -- I did: Fantasia Mathematica (1958) and The Mathematical Magpie (1962), two short story collections edited by Clifton Fadiman Mathenauts (1967), short story collection edited by Rudy Rucker The Space Child's Mother Goose (1958?), poetry Come to think of it, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle (1962) fits right in with this group.…
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jamesbritt · Aug 27, 2011 · Recommends

"Cubeworld", from the anthology Mathenauts http://books.google.com/books/about/Mathenauts.html?id=tHQsA... Great book, BTW.
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jonjacky · Mar 26, 2015 · Recommends

…fiction, satire, and miscellania assembled in the same era as A Wrinkle In Time. I enjoyed them when I was about that age. Wikipedia lists the contents of the first two. I see Rudy Rucker's collection Mathenauts is similar, but a bit later.
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