A biography of the mathematician, Nobel laureate in economics, and pioneer in game theory who battled schizophrenia. Nash was an instructor in mathematics at MIT in the 1950s.

A substantial section of the Academy Award-winning film script of this 2001 John Forbes Nash bio-pic takes place at MIT.

Mezrich's best-seller is based on the 1990s exploits of the wildly lucrative MIT Blackjack Team, organized by a former math instructor.

This follow-up to Bringing Down the House focuses on the adventures of MIT student Semyon Dukach and his classmates as they employ a new system to win at blackjack.

Former Boston Police Homicide detective Jack Kelly tries to solve the murders of graduate students from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

After the appearance of a mysterious, hollow, man-made asteroid from the future, world war erupts. Protagonist Patricia Vasquez, Caltech mathematician, visits MIT in this sci-fi novel.

"The Institute is not a playground where idlers in the guise of students may enjoy beer-guzzling, football-watching or classroom flirtations. It is a place of study," writes Maxwell Griffith, an MIT alum. "The curriculums are awesome compilations of required knowledge, purposefully back-breaking in order that the laggard, the dilettante and the mediocrity may be quickly exposed and packed off to the Princeton or Podunk U where he belongs" (42). The story of aeronautical engineer Stanley Brack's quest to build a guided missile for the Amalgamated Aircraft Corporation includes a lengthy section describing his undergraduate years at MIT in the 1940s.

This film script about an MIT janitor who also happens to be a mathematical genius won the 1997 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Beigh Masters, a Yale history graduate, works in "assets research," tracking down valuable art and antiques for wealthy clients. In this novel, she narrates the story of her 17th-century ancestor Hannah Easton, a.k.a. Salem Bibi. Beigh's boyfriend Venn Iyer is an MIT computer scientist developing a historical virtual reality system, which she uses to hunt a missing priceless diamond with a connection to Hannah.

The novel's James Orin Incandenza, optics expert, filmmaker, and founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy, played tennis while a student at MIT.

One of six MAGI biological super-computers, MAGI-04, is located on the MIT campus.

June 2026. The Soviet Union occupies most of the former United States. Two MIT professors of astrophysics, Paul deVere and former Special Operations Officer Lewis Ginter, have discovered a way to open wormholes in time. They develop a daring plan to go back to the early 1960s to alter the course of American history.

The three volumes of the Baroque Cycle--Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World--refer to the "Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of the Technologickal Arts," founded by Daniel Waterhouse in the 18th century.

Vocal score from the film. The character Tom Collins was fired from MIT "for [his] theory of actual reality."

Vocal score from the musical. The character Tom Collins was fired from MIT "for [his] theory of actual reality."

A con man posing as Sidney Poitier's son insinuates himself into the lives and home of the Kittredges, a well-to-do Upper East Side family. MIT student Trent Conway, who is one of their set, is the link between the fraudster and the Kittredges.

Some of the anecdotes in physics legend Feynman's autobiographical collection recount his undergraduate years at MIT.

Some of the anecdotes in physics legend Feynman's autobiographical collection recount his undergraduate years at MIT. This is the audio book version.

A secret society of the first MIT undergraduates (including Ellen Swallow) use their scientific skills to investigate mysterious calamities in 1868 Boston.

"The storyline of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow spans some 30 years. Sam and Sadie become estranged, then reconnect as college students in Boston. She's one of a minority of women at MIT in the late 1990s; Sam is an alienated scholarship kid at Harvard, whose Korean grandparents run a pizza place back in L.A." (See: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114196664/video-game-novel-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin)

Undergrad Paul Bustamante narrates this tale of "life, love, and the pursuit of the unknown at MIT."

Scientists figure out how to control the weather. Set in part at MIT.

Alex Doonesbury starts her freshman year at MIT.