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A sharp, playful voice in mid-century science fiction, Arthur Feldman is best known for “The Mathematicians,” a clever tale of alien invasion, intelligence, and an unexpectedly funny twist.
Arthur Feldman was the pen name of American literary agent Scott Meredith, born Arthur Scott Feldman in New York City in 1923. Before becoming one of the leading literary agents of his era, he wrote short fiction as a young man, including stories for comic books and science-fiction publications.
His story “The Mathematicians,” first published in Amazing Stories in 1953, imagines Earth conquered by a winged alien race whose greatest strength is its mathematical genius. Meredith later founded the Scott Meredith Literary Agency with his brother Sydney and represented writers including P. G. Wodehouse, Norman Mailer, Arthur C. Clarke, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. He died in 1993.