Mathematicians in Love

By Rudy Rucker

Book Overview

A riveting new science fiction novel from the writer who twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF novel. 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 amad 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. 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?? This novel is a romantic comedy with a whole corkscrew of SF twists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076531584X
• ISBN13: 9780765315847
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.1" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

Rudy Rucker is still one of the best science fiction writers around. I love his stuff.

Rucker is the King of hidden truths

This is another great Rucker book. He is the King of hidden truths, sometimes subtle, and more often not! A fun read!

Surfer mathpunks rule, dog!

Another very entertaining Rucker novel -- one of his best. Surfer mathpunk rules, dog! You won't be surprised to learn that Robert Sheckley was his first inspiration to write SF -- see rudyrucker[dot]com[slash]mathematiciansinlove Interesting guy. Cute pix, too. He has a massive pdf of notes for the book online -- -- but for heaven's sake, don't read it first! Some (spoiler-free) samples: "In principle you could hypertunnel...

amusing not by the numbers satire

In the university, the two mathematic graduate students, Bela Kis and Paul Bridge, are roommates who share much in common besides trying to obtain a PH.D by the numbers and a flat. Both are advised by maniacal mathematician Dr. Roland Haut and each enjoys the lifestyle of an advanced student living in college towns like Humelocke and Klownetown where the zaniest crazies of the universe come together to discuss the meaning...