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I love this, in an "alternate history" kind of way. Interesting and fascinating. It is, however, sad that the author apparently takes it seriously! Moreso th

I love this, in an "alternate history" kind of way. Interesting and fascinating. It is, however, sad that the author apparently takes it seriously! Moreso that he is a really good mathematician and writer. His book with Dubrovin and Novikov is among the best in differential geometry and mechanics, and all his other works that I read are definitely top-notch. The book about visualization with Kunii is particularly lovely. And he didn't turn a historical crackpot after his work in math. His math works and his historical writings are contemporary! A very interesting character, for sure. I wonder what his math colleagues think about him.

Imnimo 5y ago
Another great historical fan-fiction genre I enjoy is the Phantom Time Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis It's obviously completely fake, but I still enjoy reading about it.
- TillE 5y ago
  Yeah I'm a big fan of this sort of conspiracy theory, partly because it's a fun what-if scenario, and partly because the debunking process tends to be really informative. The Shakespeare authorship question is another good one.