Of course, by the time he wrote it he had a lot to look back upon. I'll get arguments here, but I think this book is the most autobiographical of his novels.
(He's almost equally famous for going back and writing a sequel to fix the problem when a bunch of MIT students did more calculations and determined that the Ringworld's orbit would be unstable.) Look to Larry Niven's classic SF stories if you want more thoughtful play with science and math - Niven is famous for actually doing the math to figure out that a large structure ( Ringworld) would require a greater tensile strength than ordinary matter can provide. But DON'T expect any kind of learned discussion of science or math Heinlein was known in the 30s and 40s for providing some pretty solid and interesting (for the time) engineering speculation in his fiction, but his pure science is.
If you're a teenager (or an uncritical adult looking for "popcorn reading"), it's not a bad read. I really wouldn't consider mathematics important to this story at all they're only present in the way "science" is present in Star Trek - as a convenient and misapplied label for a deus ex machina plot device, in this case, travel through literary stories the author thinks sounds like fun. In fact, most people would agree that there isn't much that The book refers also to Cantor's approach to set theory, but doesn't get it
Lilliput, Camelot, and many characters from earlier Heinlein novels. Those that we know through our fiction in this universe, including Oz, Particular reason, these alternate universes turn out to be made up of To alternate universes to escape those who now wish to kill him. Not only can Burroughs travel, he must travel Moreover, travel between universesĬan be achieved by application of linear operators which include rotation Spatial and three temporal, for symmetry) and hence (?)Ħ 6 6 universes. Mathematics involves the notion that there are in fact 6 dimensions (three Him travel to what we might consider "alternate universes". (click on names to see more mathematical fictionĮngineer and physicist Jacob Burroughs invents a time machine which lets A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)
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