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  2. The Cold Equations - Wikipedia

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    "The Cold Equations" is a science fiction short story by American writer Tom Godwin (1915–1980), first published in Astounding Magazine in August 1954. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science-fiction short stories published before 1965, and it was therefore included in The Science Fiction Hall of ...

  3. Fermat's Last Theorem in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Royale", an episode (first aired 27 March 1989) of Star Trek: The Next Generation, begins with Picard attempting to solve the puzzle in his ready room; he remarks to Riker that the theorem had remained unproven for 800 years. [13] The captain ends the episode with the line "Like Fermat's theorem, it is a puzzle we may never solve."

  4. Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia

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    Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs.

  5. Mathematical fiction - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical fiction is a genre of creative fictional work in which mathematics and mathematicians play important roles. The form and the medium of the works are not important. The form and the medium of the works are not important.

  6. Richard Grant (author) - Wikipedia

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    In the Land of Winter (1997)—Fiction; Kaspian Lost (1999) Another Green World (2006) "Drode's Equations" (1981), a short story that appeared in New Dimensions 12 and is available in the science fiction anthology The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (1994)

  7. Singular perturbation - Wikipedia

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    A perturbed problem whose solution can be approximated on the whole problem domain, whether space or time, by a single asymptotic expansion has a regular perturbation.Most often in applications, an acceptable approximation to a regularly perturbed problem is found by simply replacing the small parameter by zero everywhere in the problem statement.

  8. The Fog Horn & Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    The Fog Horn & Other Stories is a collection of six short stories written by Ray Bradbury. The collection, published in Japan, is published in English for school use. The collection, published in Japan, is published in English for school use.

  9. Science-Fiction Handbook - Wikipedia

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    Science-Fiction Handbook, subtitled The Writing of Imaginative Fiction, is a guide to writing and marketing science fiction and fantasy by L. Sprague de Camp, "one of the earliest books about modern sf." [1] The original edition was published in hardcover by Hermitage House in 1953 as a volume in its Professional Writers Library series.