Interesting Neil Stephenson letter to Dr. M. Anshel discussing zeta functions (which arise in Stephenson's most recent work Cryptonomicon,) and more interestingly, the line between fiction and reality, and how people like Dr. Anshel are represented (or not represented) in novels.
That's a great letter--the soul of patience and diplomacy. Anshel sounds like a world-class whiner; what Stephenson's doing, while lavishly praising him, is telling him to get a life.
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- jim 3-12-2001 2:46 pm
That's a great letter--the soul of patience and diplomacy. Anshel sounds like a world-class whiner; what Stephenson's doing, while lavishly praising him, is telling him to get a life.
- Tom Moody 3-12-2001 4:19 pm