Mathematics in Sci-Fi

7/7/12 This Alien Shore, C. S. Friedman, 1998. A space opera with an interesting premise; when humans first went to the stars the technology mutated them. This terrified those left on earth, and they shut off contact, leaving the first explorers stranded. When the mutated humans, Variants, developed an interstellar civilization, with presumably different technology, they returned to connect Earth into the civilization. The story within this setting focuses on a young girl who is forced to flee powerful forces that chase her through the galaxy. Heavy on computer programming technology and hackers, no mathematics except for a few nice quotes.
“... the fractal dance of each cloud formation, the infinite mathematical complexity which bonded each moment to the next ...” “(music is) a mathematical perfection whose mere shadow inspires symphonies ...” “... the first tenet of chaos theory – infinitesimally small input can alter infinitely large systems ...”