[Adaptive]

For sci-fi readers that dig aperiodic tiling, Greg Egan wrote a great short story in his book 'Diaspora' about computational wang tiles. http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Greg-Egan-ebook/dp/B00E83YOEI (the short story is titled Wang's Carpets, available separately as well, but the whole book is worth buying or checking out from the library).

I hope this is considered on topic. I find fiction, particular that which inspires interest in math/code to always be particularly relevant.

[k2enemy]

Thanks for posting this! I just read my first Egan book (Permutation City) and was wondering which one to read next.

I thought Permutation City was outstanding. I put the book down several times in awe and to think more about his ideas. It is great when a novel's story is so profound, yet plausible enough, to encourage this.

[Adaptive]

I just recently read Permutation City as well. If you liked it you'll enjoy Diaspora immensely.

Permutation City is one of those books that made me feel the same way I did when first trying to understand clever recursive functions in Haskell.

That is of course high praise.

[swayvil]

permutation city! omg!