Thursday, October 30, 2008
Because I am procrastinating some work, I finished Anathem and have been reading the online acknowledgements.
It is significantly a book about Platonism, which as a former philosophy major I liked.
One of my first submissions to slashdot that got accepted was a blurb about an article about aperiodic tiling of mosques,and some speculation about whether the tilers were thinking in terms of Penrose's work on aperiodic tiling. It's not that I know this stuff myself, as that the article struck me as slashdotworthy. Stephenson is interested in Penrose both because of aperiodic tiling and Platonism (and other stuff too). As expected, I liked the book. There's plenty of explosions and romance along with the philosophy; it's in the same vein as the system of the world trilogy.
It is significantly a book about Platonism, which as a former philosophy major I liked.
One of my first submissions to slashdot that got accepted was a blurb about an article about aperiodic tiling of mosques,and some speculation about whether the tilers were thinking in terms of Penrose's work on aperiodic tiling. It's not that I know this stuff myself, as that the article struck me as slashdotworthy. Stephenson is interested in Penrose both because of aperiodic tiling and Platonism (and other stuff too). As expected, I liked the book. There's plenty of explosions and romance along with the philosophy; it's in the same vein as the system of the world trilogy.
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