He also must be one of the best recreational mathematicians in the world, as any...

hackernewds · on March 7, 2025

sometimes on HN, I cannot tell which posts are AstroTurfing because the praise often is so niche and unrelated and superlative

turtleyacht · on March 7, 2025

Sometimes it's alright. I got motivated to dig and found a list of Greg Egan's non-fiction books:

Waiting for the series Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (various authors) gets a little cheaper.

Suppafly · on March 10, 2025

>best recreational mathematicians in the world

What does that involve? does that mean he's good at math or is he coming up with new research and theorems and such?

senderista · on March 11, 2025

He has coauthored math/physics papers with John Baez and Dan Christensen off the top of my head, I'm sure there are others.