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Assignment On Mathematics In Science Fiction

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Assignment on Mathematics in Science Fiction
Submitted to: Jai Singh
Submitted by: Nizar Ahammed C M
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Mathematics in Science Fiction
Science fiction can be defined as a fantasy fiction designed to appeal those with a knowledge and interest in science. The typical reader of science fiction may consider traditional realistic fictions as a bit of boredom. These same readers hold good knowledge about the science which makes them to contemplate about the scientific possibilities prescribed in the literary text. Many of the scientific fictions, explicitly or implicitly, throw some lights upon the genre called ‘mathematics’. In other words all the science fiction on this earth would contain the mathematics. Many books contain references to the mathematics like Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, and some mathematicians had written some fictional works like short stories.
Mathematics in Fiction
All most science fictions subsume the reference to mathematics. A simple use of mathematics is to show the high rate of intelligence of the characters, a mathematical theory may be used as plot-development as Dan Brown did in The Da Vinci Code. Mathematics is used as a standard for reasoning; characters in the literary works are brilliant thinkers if they know mathematics, even they hold antagonist roles in the text. Rarely mathematicians are considered as foolishness as Jonathan Swift says about mathematicians in Laputa even though they ruled the country and achieved the supremacy

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