Once again, I was doing a Google search just to check whether or not Google already crawled and indexed my blog site. I don't know how many people do that, but I hope you don't put any meaning to that action. ;)
Anyway, I tried "baxter godel" (minus the quotes). A curious result caught my attention, and I clicked it and ended up reading some of the articles there. The site is MathFiction. This was the actual page I ended up in, but I'm sure they have a homepage.
I know I've seen this site before, but I guess I just bookmarked it as an interesting site and never got back to it. I'm glad I was brought back to it today! It has some pretty interesting and helpful commentaries on SF works that had dealt with math. Being a fan of hard SF, I've read some of them. It's nice to see Vacuum Diagrams rated highly by the site. ;)
What's more, they have links to works that are freely available online! Free math fiction! Now, I'm sure not everyone will be as ecstatic as I am, but I suggest you give it a try. Just now, I read Division by Zero by Ted Chiang, which is one of the stories marked as "Highly Rated." You can find a copy of the story here.
It's a quick light read about a female mathematician's spiral into suicidal depression (sort of) after proving that arithmetic is inconsistent (i.e. that using only arithmetic's basic axioms, one can derive two statements that contradict each other). The story provides the necessary summary background of why this is relevant. The proof isn't there of course (it is fiction after all!). I'm sure Gödel would have something to say about that, maybe. (I'm still reading Gödel's Proof, so please forgive my lack of understanding.)
If you're an SF reader, this site is a treasure. If not - just give it a try! It's not for geeks only! I'm sure you'll come out more knowledgeable (and hopefully interested) after going through some of the works.
Hm... Here's another interesting title: Our Feynman Who Art in Heaven... by Paul Di Filippo (here is the link to the short story). Now this made me smile and laugh! :D
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