false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173324940m/274045.jpg 274045 2 <div><div><div>A riveting new science fiction novel from the writer who twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF novel.</div><div>Bela and Paul, two wild young mathematicians, are friends and roommates, and in love with the same woman, who happens to be Alma, Bela's girlfriend. They fight it out by changing reality using cutting edge math, to change who gets the girl. The contemporary world they live in is not quite this one, but much like Berkeley, California, and the two graduate students are trying to finish their degrees and get jobs. It doesn't help that their unpredictable advisor Roland is a mad mathematical genius who has figured out a way to predict isolated and specific bits of the future that can cause a lot of trouble. . .and he's starting to see monsters in mirrors. </div><div>Bela and Paul start to mess around with reality, and when that happens, all heaven and hell break loose. Those monsters of Roland's were really there, but who are they? </div><div>This novel is a romantic comedy with a whole corkscrew of SF twists.</div></div></div> 265723 28 11 2006 Mathematicians in Love total:100|5:1|4:2|3:0|2:0|1:0| 100 317 177 31 4 2 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 18:25:08 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:43:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu May 01 17:07:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 16:45:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 08:11:45 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 08:12:45 -0800 2009 Mathematicians in Love begins on an alternate world (where David Hume and Alexander Locke get the name nod for the university town instead of Idealist philosopher George Berkeley) from our own and ends up with several options/timelines from there. I’m not giving anything away here....more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:42:30 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:42:30 -0800 2009 Rudy Rucker, formerly a professor of mathematics and computer science, has traveled both into the past and into the future in novels including As Above, So Below (2002) and Frek and the Elixir (2004). Mathematicians, whichtakes place in a contemporary Berkeley-ish setting, offers a "transrealis...

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Too much setup for how we could all obviously gleam this was going to end up. I think the author must be addicted to Guitar Hero because the...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat May 16 11:15:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 13:16:23 -0700 2009
In 1997 or so, the NY Times rep...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 19:15:52 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 29 21:13:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Sep 04 12:42:27 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 12:25:09 -0700 2007 Warning: review contains minor spoilers.

It turned out to be a different book than I'd expected. I get the impression this may be due to a lack of familiarity with Rudy Rucker's work. I had hoped it would be a more serious scifi novel instead of something closer to a novel by Christopher Moore...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 20:49:38 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 20:51:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 30 19:20:04 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 20 10:39:03 -0700 2008 In my eyes Rudy Rucker rarely fails me as a writer. I have yet to encounter a book he has written that was something I had to put down. That being said I am also not a boo...more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:07:48 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:07:48 -0800 2009

This book fell far short of my expectations. It shifted tone and style so many times that it became incoherent in the middle and barely corrected in time for the ending. The story devolves from a cheesy almost-romance ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 14:47:35 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 14:51:06 -0800 2009 Having a mathematician as a friend made me reach for this book. I'm afraid the huge technical jargon was lost on me. I glossed it over.
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