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I am more surpised that the other amateur mathematian appearing in this article is Greg Egan (He has a personal website on https://www.gregegan.net/ https://www

I am more surpised that the other amateur mathematian appearing in this article is Greg Egan (He has a personal website on https://www.gregegan.net/ https://www.gregegan.net/). He is one of the best contemporary hard SF writers in the world.

barbazoo 2y ago
Wow. Any recommendation where to start?
- jamiek88 2y ago
  All of them but I personally love Permutation City.
  - lupire 2y ago
    Apropos to today's topic
  - barbazoo 2y ago
    thank you
- asystole 2y ago
  Schild's Ladder is my personal favourite.
  - barbazoo 2y ago
    thank you
senderista 2y ago
He also must be one of the best recreational mathematicians in the world, as anyone who follows his work on his website and Mastodon knows.
- hackernewds 2y ago
  sometimes on HN, I cannot tell which posts are AstroTurfing because the praise often is so niche and unrelated and superlative
  - turtleyacht 2y ago
    Sometimes it's alright. I got motivated to dig and found a list of Greg Egan's non-fiction books: https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Bibliography.html#NonFiction https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Bibliography.html#NonF... Waiting for the series Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (various authors) gets a little cheaper.
- Suppafly 2y ago
  >best recreational mathematicians in the world What does that involve? does that mean he's good at math or is he coming up with new research and theorems and such?
  - senderista 2y ago
    He has coauthored math/physics papers with John Baez and Dan Christensen off the top of my head, I'm sure there are others.