Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of [science fiction].
Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award. ==Life and work== Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia. He published his first work in 1983.
On 27 February 2019, using ideas developed by Robin Houston and others, Egan produced a superpermutation of n = 7 symbols of length 5906, breaking previous records. ==Personal life== As of 2015, Egan lives in Perth.
His early stories feature strong elements of [fiction|supernatural horror]. Egan's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction. ===Mathematics=== In 2018, Egan described a construction of superpermutations, thus giving an upper bound to their length.
On 27 February 2019, using ideas developed by Robin Houston and others, Egan produced a superpermutation of n = 7 symbols of length 5906, breaking previous records. ==Personal life== As of 2015, Egan lives in Perth.
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