Mathematics in Sci-Fi

HyperionThese quotes come from Dan Simmons’ Hyperion. They occur in the section titled The Poet’s Tale.
“Like Keats and Lamb in Haydon’s studio, don Balthazar and I drank toasts to “the confusion of mathematics” and mourned the destruction of the poetry of the rainbow by M. Newton’s prying prism.”
“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gauss once wrote: “Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
“Yes, we weave real-fabric things from the dreamstuff of mathematics, but the universe is hardwired with arithmetic. Scratch a circle and pi peeps out. Enter a new solar system and Tycho Brahe’s formulae lie waiting under the black velvet cloak of space/time. But where has the universe hidden a word under its outer layer of biology, geometry, or insensate rock?”
“... the Zen Gnostic Church was expanding exponentially and I became a true believer ...” I find this to be a nice combination of religion and mathematics.
“Hyperion is a rent in the entire predictive fabric of the Core’s existence. It is the penultimate oxymoron - a nonfactorable variable.” ... two futures - two realities