Dan Asimov: But as long as we're on the subject, are there any books or short stories involving math that math-fungi have liked?
--er, hate to bring up the obvious, but if somebody named "Asimov" does not know the answer to this question... who does? I actually thought the "foundation" N-ogy by I.Asimov & posthumous others, was sort of mathematical. Not in the sense of actual math theorems, but there was a lot of logical deduction going on, and there was a collection of mathematicians/statisticians/political scientists who were sort of secretly in charge of everything, and you know you like that idea. Vernor Vinge & Larry Niven have written various works with a lot of pretend science or future math in them, and they sometimes write followups explaining how related/not their fiction is to actual science. So they at least try. Maybe some of you should try your hand at creating math-fiction. Vast unsatisfied unrecognized market for it... right?