But he couldn’t make his family understand, he couldn’t make them see how beautiful the math was, because it was in his head. So he began working on P vs. NP and hoped if he solved it they’d realize what he’d been doing with this life, and that it would have a little more meaning. He wanted to solve it for his mom, for Don. He wanted to point to it and say “see, math is important—even if you can’t understand why,”.
But instead, P vs. NP had become a hide-a-way
Awww, poor Charlie! I liked how you got into Charlie's head, and the bit about the velocity of rain drops. *g*
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Date: 2007-06-04 03:43 pm (UTC)But instead, P vs. NP had become a hide-a-way
Awww, poor Charlie! I liked how you got into Charlie's head, and the bit about the velocity of rain drops. *g*