The article is a review of the book "Mathematicians in Love" by Rudy Rucker. This intricate science-fiction novel
is narrated by Bela Kis, a young postgraduate mathematician and musician who plays guitar in a rockband called "e to the i pi," Bela and his colleague, Paul Bridge, have been researching the Morphic Classification Theorem: mathematics that seeks to represent complex physical processes by simpler entities, such as the representation of the stock market by, say, a fish in a tea-pot. Aided by their erratic
but gifted supervisor, Roland Haut, they complete their theses, gain Ph,D,s, and both fall in love with Alma, a student of the humanities.