[Blackpool] Book recommendation: Cryptonomicon

[Arthur Garlick]

I meant to recommend this book:
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/344245512X
 
I've been meaning to read it for a while...  A fair amount of maths and even perl script in the book but it's funny and the tech stuff is not too heavy and well explained.  It will start with things like the maths behind calculating how often the chain on Alan Turings bike will fall off and then takes you into relating that to prime numbers, cryptography and the Enigma cypher.  
Great read.
 
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