Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction? 278
An anonymous reader writes "Neal Stephenson's 1999 Cryptonomicon was a great yarn. It was also a thoroughly enjoyable (and too short) romp through some mathematics. Where can I find more of that? I should say that I don't want SF — at least none of the classic SF I read voraciously in the 70s; it's just not the same thing, and far too often just a puppet-theatre for an author's philosophical rant. Has any author managed to hit the same vein as Stephenson did? (Good non-fiction math-reads are also gratefully accepted. What have you got?)"
Hofstadter (Score:5, Insightful)
I found Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach" to be at least as engaging as any Stephenson-esque fiction I've ever read.
"A Subway Named Mobius" (Score:5, Insightful)
"A Subway Named Mobius" [youngmathwizards.com], from 1950.
Re:Too short? (Score:2, Insightful)
But every one of those pages is interesting and exciting, unlike his other books, which tend to lose pace and focus after a brilliant start.
Re:Romney's Budget (Score:3, Insightful)
you partisan bitches
Wow! Projection.
Re:Oo oo! I've got one! (Score:4, Insightful)
I just took the actual Obama recovery results and got negative numbers without having to multiply by anything...