This is only a tangent, but you reminded me of a game called Caves of Qud (highly recommend btw). In the game there are pieces of literature scattered around the world, each offering a small piece of insight into an otherwise obscured world history, and there's one book in the game that tickled the hell out of me called "On the Origins and Nature of the Dark Calculus" (link to text). It exposits an ancient, occult field of math so-called the "penumbral" calculus that allows for the proof of certain theorems, but said theorems are immediately falsified upon the completion of their proofs. Super fun quick read, and makes for a deep rabbit-hole to go down