Math as Beautiful/Exciting/Useful: 109; Math as Cold/Dry/Useless: 61 (opens in new tab)
"Of the many works of fiction that are published, very few involve mathematics or mathematicians. However, people who like mathematics (or are mathematicians ourselves) may especially enjoy reading those few that do. Moreover, as I argue in an article in the AMS Notices, mathematicians should be interested in these works of "mathematical fiction" even if we do not enjoy them because they both affect and reflect the non-mathematician's view of this subject." "At the moment, there are 1726 work...
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