The Luzhin Defense is about chess. But perhaps the same novel could be written about a mathematician, I first learned about the novel while reading this article

The Luzhin Defense is about chess. But perhaps the same novel could be written about a mathematician, I first learned about the novel while reading this article by V.I. Arnold: https://www.math.ru.nl/~mueger/arnold.pdf https://www.math.ru.nl/~mueger/arnold.pdf