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Charles Sheffield
Charles Sheffield (1935-2002)

mathematician, physicist

  • University of Cambridge

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Charles Sheffield Sf Gateway Omnibu
Microcosmic Tales
The Cyborg from earth
Far futures
Futurs pas possible
My Brother's Keeper
Great Science Fiction
The Spheres of Heaven
Godspeed
Proteus manifest
The web between the worlds
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Borderlands of science
The Billion Dollar Boy (Jupiter)
Higher education
Cold As Ice
The Ganymede Club
Between the strokes of night
Sight of Proteus
Resurgence
Convergence
Transcendence
The Amazing Dr. Darwin
Aftermath
The New Hugo Winners
The nimrod hunt
The heritage universe
Putting up Roots
Summertide
Man on Earth
Proteus in the underworld
Earth watch
Georgia On My Mind And Other Places
Divergence
Starfire
The Mind Pool
The selkie
Le démon de Malkirk et autres histoires
Analog Science Fiction, May 1978
Brother to Dragons
Erasmus Magister
Dancing with myself
Proteus Unbound
Convergent Series
Dark as day
Convergence
Proteus Combined
Trader's world
Education and society
The McAndrew Chronicles
How to save the world
Towering Yarns
Space careers
Charles Sheffield SF Omnibus
Science Fiction Special 41
Proteo
The compleat McAndrew
The Heritage Universe, Summertide, Divergence, Transcendence
The Judas cross
Hidden variables
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1989
Space access and utilization beyond 2000
Les chroniques de McAndrew
Space Suits
The lady vanishes and other oddities of nature
One Man's Universe
Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • University of California, San Diego, Michigan State University

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True Names
A Fire upon the Deep
Machines That Think
The Peace War
Rainbows End
Across Realtime
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
Marooned in Realtime
The collected stories of Vernor Vinge
The Witling
Great Science Fiction
Tatja Grimm's world
The children of the sky
Digital Rapture
Robotics Through Science Fiction
Grimm's world
Threats and Other Promises
The Tor SF Sampler
Der Zeitläufer
Eine Tiefe am Himmel
Au tréfonds du ciel
Histórias de Robôs - Volume 2
The Zones of Thought Series
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
The Children of the Sky
Zones of Thought
ABISMO EN EL CIELO, UN
Fast Times at Fairmont High
Der Friedenskrieg
Tatja Grimm's World
Copiii cerului
Cookie monster
Tiempos Nuevos en Fairmont High
Analog 6
Children of the Sky
Un fuego sobre el abismo (Zones of Thought, #1)
After the Battle on Starship Hill
EL FINAL DEL ARCO IRIS
Naufragio en el tiempo real
Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
Glubina v nebe
De krochten van het heelal
Tutti i racconti
Grimm's World
Zones of Thought
La Captive du temps perdu
La Guerra de la Paz
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954)

physicist, mathematician

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Titanic Cat
A Briefer History of Time
The Drunkard's Walk
Feynman's Rainbow
The Grand Design
The last dinosaur
Stephen Hawking
Euclid's Window
Elastic
The Upright Thinkers
Subliminal
War of the Worldviews
Emotional
Stephen Hawking
O andar do bêbado
Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 1961)

mathematician

  • University of Western Australia

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three
The Best of Greg Egan
Uncanny Valley
Teranesia
Isaac Asimov's Detectives
Diaspora
Distress
Quarantine
Incandescence
The Eternal Flame
Upgraded
Permutation City
Luminous
The Arrows Of Time
Schild's ladder
The Clockwork Rocket
Mission
Zendegi
Dichronauts
Axiomatic
Oceanic
The Long List Anthology Volume 5
Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
Blood Sisters
Dark Integers and Other Stories
The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
Perihelion Summer
Phoresis
An Unusual Angle
Instantiation
Isolation
Crystal Nights And Other Stories
Permutation City
The Book of All Skies
Some of the Best from Tor. com : 2019 Edition
Wang's Carpets
Perihelion Summer
Cocon
Dichronauts Lib/E
Zeitgeber
Eternal Flame
The Orthogonal Trilogy
Nearest
Axiomatic
Permutation City C
Dispersion
Schild's Ladder
Eternal Flame, The
Zendegi
Best of Greg Egan
Untitled Collection
Diáspora
Diaspora
Incandescence
Clockwork Rocket
Arrows of Time
Our Lady of Chernobyl
BIFROST N88 : GREG EGAN
Permutation City
ha-Hesger
快乐的理由
三进数世界
祈祷之海
Denis Guedj
Denis Guedj (1940-2010)

mathematician, actor

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Le théorème du perroquet
La Méridienne
One zéro show et Du point à la ligne
La gratuité ne vaut plus rien
Génis, ou, Le bambou parapluie
Les cheveux de Bérénice
L'empire des nombres
Meraklisina Matematik
La Bela
Zéro, ou, Les cinq vies d'Aémer
La Révolution des savants
Villa des hommes
Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker (born 1946)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • Swarthmore College, Rutgers University

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Mad Professor
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
All the visions ; Space baltic
The secret of life
Hylozoic
Where the Lost Things Are
Year's Best SF 14
Infinity and the mind
The Fourth Dimension
Freeware
Seek!
Software (Ware Tetralogy #1)
Frek and the elixir
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
The hacker and the ants
Surfing the Gnarl (Outspoken Authors #7)
Mathenauts
Realware
Gnarl!
Mind Tools
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
Postsingular
Artificial life lab
Wastelands 2
Mathematicians in Love
White light
Wetware
Mondo 2000
As Above, So Below
Jim and the Flims
The Sex Sphere
Spaceland
Nested scrolls
Semiotext(e) SF
Master of space and time
Saucer wisdom
The ware tetralogy
Software engineering and computer games
The hollow earth
Spacetime Donuts
Transreal!
Million Mile Road Trip
Transreal Cyberpunk
The Big Aha
57th Franz Kafka
Totem Poles
Rudy Rucker's cellular automata laboratory
Hollow Earth & Return to The Hollow Earth
Return to the Hollow Earth
Loco: A Tor.Com Original
Live robots
Superlative Light
The UFO Show
Good Night, Moon: A Tor.Com Original
Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth
Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
Notes for Juicy Ghosts
Complete Stories (Volume 1)
Complete Stories (Volume 2)
Wikiworld and Other Stories
Notes for The Big Aha
Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life, White Light, Saucer Wisdom
Heath Math Level 1 Student Text
Billy's Picture Book
Heath Math Level 3 Student Txt
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory: A Tor.Com Original
Moldies & meatbops: Three *ware novels
Juicy Ghosts
Heath Math Level K Student Text
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)

mathematician, pianist, philosopher, computer scientist, magician, chess composer

  • Princeton University, University of Chicago

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Alice in puzzle-land
Detective stories
Satan, cantor, and infinity
The lady or the tiger? and other logic puzzles
This book needs no title
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
What is the name of this book?
Forever undecided
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
The chess mysteries of the Arabian knights
Who Knows?
The tao is silent
Logical labyrinths
Theory of Formal Systems
First-order logic
The Riddle of Scheherazade
Set theory and the continuum problem
A Beginners Guide To Mathematical Logic
5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies
Diagonalization and self-reference
Recursion theory for metamathematics
Some Interesting Memories
Ça y est, je suis fou!!
King Arthur in search of his dog and other curious puzzles
Four Lives
A beginner's further guide to mathematical logic
The magic garden of George B
A Spiritual Journey
Mixed Bag
The Gödelian puzzle book
Reflections
Juegos de Ajedrez y Los Misticos Caballos
In Their Own Words
Rambles Through My Library
The lady or the tiger?
Vladimir Makanin
Vladimir Makanin (1937-2017)

mathematician

  • MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors

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Escape hatch & The long road ahead
The Loss
Reka s bystrym techeniem
Escape hatch
ISpug
Linii︠a︡ sudʹby i linii︠a︡ zhizni
Escape hatch & The long road ahead
The manhole
Udavshiĭsi͡a︡ rasskaz o li͡u︡bvi
Dolog nash putʹ
Zhenshchiny
Laz
Grazhdanin ubegai︠u︡shchiĭ
Baize-covered table with decanter
Izbrannoe
Ostavshiĭ
Andegraund, ili, Geroĭ nashego vremeni
Odin i odna
V bolʹshom gorode
Na zimneĭ doroge
Golosa
Dve sestry i Kandinskiĭ
Starye knigi
Ispug
Predtecha
Gde skhodilosʹ nebo s kholmami
Otstavshiĭ
Mesto pod solnt͡s︡em
Kli͡u︡charev i Alimushkin
Utrata
Andergraund, ili Geroĭ nashego vremeni
Povestʹ o Starom Poselke
Le citoyen en fuite
Pogoni︠a︡
Bezott͡s︡ovshchina
Kavkazskiĭ plennyĭ
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Bezottsovshchina
Povesti
Laz
Отставший
Otdushina
Chelovek svity. Adaptirovannyi tekst
Portret i vokrug
Asan
Si︠u︡r
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Pogoni︠a︡
Laz
Kavkazskii plennyi
Dolgozhiteli
Povestʹ o Starom Poselke
Pryamaya liniya
Asan
Andegraund, ili Geroĭ nashego vremeni
Nochʹ... Zapi︠a︡tai︠a︡... Nochʹ
Poĭte im tikho
Si͡u︡r
Portret i vokrug
Portret i vokrug ; Odin i odna
Na pervom dykhanii
Les voix
Udavshiĭsi︠a︡ rasskaz o li︠u︡bvi
Kavkazskiĭ plennyĭ
Antiutopii︠a︡