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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Portugal, 1944. Recruited by British intelligence to help uncover Nazi secrets of atomic warfare, math prodigy Andrea Aspinall soon disappears into the crowds of Lisbon, hiding behind a new identity. Karl Voss, an attaché for German intelligence, arrives in the city under the purported agenda of helping the Reich, all the while secretly working to save his beloved home country from annihilation under their reign. Two lost souls meet in a city filled...
22) Manifold: time
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Hailed by Arthur C. Clarke as "a major new talent, " Stephen Baxter is one of the most gifted writers to appear in the last decade. His stunning novels combine state-of-the-art scientific speculation with nonstop adventure on a cosmic scale, continuing the grand tradition of science fiction pioneered by such giants as Isaac Asimov and Robert E. Heinlein.
Now the multi-award -- winning author gives us his most ambitious and accomplished novel yet....
23) Dark as day
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons caches to threaten human survival.
The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War, a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race, and the population of the outer moons,...
24) Zero sum game
Author
Series
Cas Russell ; 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she's the only person around with a superpower...until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people's minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips....
Author
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying thriller that opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. It's 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing, is found dead in his home: it is widely assumed...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet 1720 Swiss university town, math prodigy Leonhard Euler is thrust into a dangerous web of jealousy, intrigue, and murder, and he will need both his genius and his faith to survive"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Love can take you to the darkest places ... Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers.
But, Mishka is not all he seems, and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was.
In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels...
28) The maniac
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"--
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Thresher, a mathematical genius living in Victorian London, finds himself turning into a tree, a symptom of the Peculiarities, a strange condition afflicting different life forms, as he tries to solve the mystery of the disease and links it to the connections between magic, his family's bank, and the secret occult societies of the city."--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they're bound together by the tragic death of their parents. Mathematical genius Art relies on logic, while Mimi prefers to follow her heart. When Mimi decides she needs more from life than dutifully tending to her brilliant brother, she asks for his help to find love. Art agrees, but on one condition: that she find her soulmate using a strict mathematical principle. Things seem promising,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the age's greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb. As he performs that work Charlie suffers a crisis of conscience, which his wife, Brenda--unaware of the true...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Half-mad with grief, Katya turns to the unfinished notes for her mother's last textbook, hoping to find guidance in mathematical concepts.With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and to YouMeFun, the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears--and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park's equipment supplier is taken over by a shady trio, with confusing demands. Why won't Toy of Finland Ltd sell the new Moose Chute to Henri when he needs it as the park's main attraction? Meanwhile, Henri's relationship...
39) WWW : wake
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Although Caitlin Decter is blind, she can effortlessly surf the Internet by following its complex paths clearly in her mind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness.
40) Cliff walk
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Escaping a torturous childhood, Crelly develops her acting talent and marries a wealthy mathmatician. The two are haunted by twisted characters from Crelly's past.
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