Dear Writers:
“Reading Alex Kuo is best done twice.” — Robert Wallace
With characters on opposite sides of the Pacific, Alex Kuo’s The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze may have some of its readers on opposite sides of its equations.
Published last year by Haven Books, if one chases the various reviews of this mathematical novel with doppelganger protagonists—some love it, some damn it!—it was laughingly mentioned to me by the man behind the math that a comment thread starts to emerge:
What does the math have to do with it?, or, I didn’t get the math. Continue reading