Division by zero (Ted Chiang)
http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/division/full/ Division by zero (Ted Chiang)
a scifi story of bugs and insanity.
strangely, scientist seem to be believe it well may come true (possibly modulo the insanity). even today Voevodsky claims something close to the story - basically math is really screwed up, but in a fixable way (i don’t understand the details).
more from Chiang http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Ted_Chiang.html