Thoughts on reading Cryptonomicon*
Mar. 13th, 2007 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhMan, Neal Stephenson is so much smarter than I am.
At least as regards math. I like word problems and proofs and logic games, but this sort of pure number theorizing is way outside of my ability to grasp intuitively. At least the characters are interesting enough that I don't care if I don't always understand what they're talking about.
*Yes, I know, I should have read this ages ago. But I started at the other end of Neal Stephenson's body of work and read my way backwards to this one; I'd been putting it off because it's so big and I don't particularly care about either WWII or codes.
At least as regards math. I like word problems and proofs and logic games, but this sort of pure number theorizing is way outside of my ability to grasp intuitively. At least the characters are interesting enough that I don't care if I don't always understand what they're talking about.
*Yes, I know, I should have read this ages ago. But I started at the other end of Neal Stephenson's body of work and read my way backwards to this one; I'd been putting it off because it's so big and I don't particularly care about either WWII or codes.
