Mathematicians in Love
by Rudy Rucker
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Read in March, 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 (whom I love, but I go in expecting that kind of story).
There were some thinl...more
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 (whom I love, but I go in expecting that kind of story).
There were some thinl...more
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Read in January, 2007
I have mixed feelings about this one. I loved the first few chapters, setting up Bela’s alternate universe—our world but not (and specifically, Berkeley but not, which was particularly fun for me). I loved some of the insights into the different ways Bela and Paul approached math; the idea of Bela hearing equations as music was wonderful, because I’m always fascinated by the way people think. Some of the alternate universe theory was cool, too—I dug the council of alien mathematic...more
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The problem about reading a book about mathematicians is that, well, it's about math. The math is handled in a Lewis Carroll sort of way, with plenty of metaphors to explain the complicated concepts, but at times I almost wished there would be a page or two of technobabble rather than another metamorphosis of the teakettle and the rake.
The love story, which is supposedly the whole reason these math graduates are traveling through parallel dimensions, falls flat. The woman the protagonist is ...more
The love story, which is supposedly the whole reason these math graduates are traveling through parallel dimensions, falls flat. The woman the protagonist is ...more
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
math geeks
There are some authors who you will drop anything to read. Rudy Rucker is one of them. I have as hard a time giving any of his works less than five stars as I do rating anything my Camus as low as a four! I devoured this newest novel by Rucker as soon as it came out, and was not disappointed. Rucker's expansive philosophy of reality explores the reaches of possibility, while remaining grounded enough to touch on the unlikely topic described by the title. This clever love story has a slightl...more
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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for:
everyone
Rudy Rucker has this thing that he does, this almost magical power where he imagines some sort of mathematics that is so powerful that it warps reality and he does it in a way that you don't feel like he's dumbing it down for you. This book is well written, and you come to care deeply for the characters, despite the fact that none of them seem to really give a shit for one another, because, hey, we're going to get it right in one of these realities. And yeah, I should really be putting more ef...more
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Read in November, 2007
This was an impulse read based purely on the title. The mathematical, musical (a bit reminiscent of War for the Oaks by Emma Bull), and political aspects of the novel were interesting, pulling me along. The love interest of the mathematicians was not compellingly drawn and the ending was weak. Overall, though, a good read.
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pre-adolescents and math nerds
wasn't what i thought it would be, but a fun thought experiment despite it's myriad flaws as a Novel. i read it in a day, around a trip to the Met. really more recommended to younger sci-fi readers who're cruising for that half-goofy Bob Aspirin feel.
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I am in love... with Rudy! Awesome telling of a tale of two mathematicians looking to change the past and in love with the same woman. Aliens, alternate reality, and what a protal to the next universe over might look like in SoCAL. I want to go...
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Read in July, 2008
An imaginative SF romp with plenty of satirical observations of our world.
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