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Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. A favorite of mine by MyLongNickName · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A favorite of mine

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  2. Re:Hofstadter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Spoiler: they all die in the end.