[Radix]

Have you ever read Neal Stephenson's works? His stuff is rather deep, but dang it requires a lot of patience to plod through some of it. He simply keeps you enthralled and wanting you to get to the latter aspects of his works. Good Writers of course always do that.

I actually recommend his works, highly. I actually have not read them all, well, not finished them all, but though it has been years since I read them, any of them. Cryptonomicron has for years been my favorite.

I have long loved studying matrices and coding. The whole business of Francis Bacon and Elizabethan codes has so intrigued me for decades.

Stephenson builds on the works of mathematical Masters. It is reminiscent of Douglas Hofsteader and his works, except that the mixing in of actual History, real war stories, and a whole lot more is simply the the sort of stuff that is almost impossible to extricate oneself from. One simply has to contend with it all in order to perceive the point.

[little jeremiah]

From your description, that is way, way beyond my pay grade. I could barely grok the Biernutz article. I have my limits. Math and related fine tuning is beyond me.