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Good stuff. Also, The picture of Klein’s quartic curve was made by Greg Egan, and you should also check out his page on Klein’s quartic curve. For anyone
by wfn 13y ago
Good stuff.
Also,
The picture of Klein’s quartic curve was made by Greg Egan, and you should also check out his page on Klein’s quartic curve.
For anyone curious, Greg Egan writes interesting hard scifi. A particularly interesting and hardcore piece of scifi which rests on a significant pile of graph theory et al. is his novel "Schild's Ladder." [1] (one of these days, one of these days I am bound to attempt to finish it..)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s_Ladder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s_Ladder
- itsboring 13y agoI read his novel Incandescence recently which was also really interesting. It's about a seemingly primitive civilization of non-humanoids who have to work out relativity quickly to avert disaster. I can't claim to follow it entirely but I enjoy his work nonetheless.
- chii 13y agowow, that schild's latter book sounds very interesting. Is there any more similar kind of books like it (that deals with hardcore scifi themes)?
- wfn 13y agoI'd ditto the question ;) Semi-recent thread with some interesting-looking suggestions, not sure of 'hard' scifi label though: http://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1eyt3b/is_there_any_sf_book_that_gets_orbital_mechanics/ http://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1eyt3b/is_there_any... I'd recommend other books by Greg Egan, though. Permutation City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City) is particularly interesting and makes some very interesting conjectures dealing with computation, cognition, 'quantum ontology', etc. Character development is somewhat poor, but eh! (there's also a FAQ on the author's website: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ.html http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ...)