Sandy

Sandy asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

While reading a book about math errors my mind kept turning toward Prof. Vorthys and "engineering failure analysis". In many cases you likely don't have or need specific math details in stories. But I am aware many folks are math-phobic. Does that ever motivate you to slide over mathmatical details? I also wondered if you ever find math fun and creative in itself or is it more a means to an end?

Lois McMaster Bujold
I am not a math person, tho' I did get up to differential calculus, decades ago in college. Long forgotten now. I do like the pictures/graphs generated by math -- those, I find intuitively illuminating. I only do or consult on math to get time-speed-distance and suchlike calculations in my tales not-wrong, within the bounds of the possible. This is as important for horses as it is for spaceships.

Ta, L.

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