Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction?

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @09:10AM from the it-was-an-arbitrarily-lit-and-stormy-night dept.

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?)"

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Re:Hofstadter by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-24 09:27 · Score: 5, Interesting

Hostadter also wrote "Metamagical Themas" - both the book and the articles in Scientific American for some time. Those two books were some of the best reads I've ever enjoyed.