One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. Heck, I'm grateful to everyone who visited the site.A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.Įxplore Solenoid further with the Solenoid Reader, a free companion download!īased on Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. I am also grateful to everyone who has contributed to this website. Thanks to Vijay Fafat for writing the summary of that work (and so many others). The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire.

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I hope to be able to update this entry once I have had a chance to read it.īuy this work of mathematical fiction and read reviews at. (Hinton is especially well known for his work on and advocacy of higher dimensional mathematics, and in fact is the author of a work of mathematical fiction in this database.)Īs I write this review in summer 2022, the first English translation is going to be published later this year. In addition to his own explorations into higher dimensional geometry, the fictional protagonist of this novel learns about real 19th century mathematicians George Boole, his wife Mary Everest, and their son-in-law Charles Howard Hinton. A solenoid built into the foundation of his new house provides him with the ability to see or travel to 'higher dimensions'. In this surrealistic existentialist novel, a school teacher in Romania (who has much in common with the author) seeks to escape from his boring life. A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)

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