The meaing of mathematics in Against the Day.....

[Carvill, John]

<< No, that's not the point at all, but I'm going to stop discussing this 
with you now, since you clearly have zero interest in any point I might 
be making. >>

What I wonder is, if you *had* a point to make, why haven't you made it yet?

<< You scream bloody hell whenever anyone on this list says anything that 
can, no matter how obliquely, be read as touching on your motives for 
saying that you do.  Odd that you are always so ready yourself to argue 
ad hominem. >>

Don't think I was screaming. I wasn't making an ad hominem attack on you, and to be fair, I did say 'I may be wrong'. It's just that you jump in with a denial that Pynchon is 'discussing' math (or some particular mathematical area) in ATD, but you fail to explain what would qualify, in your book, for such a 'discussion'. You also think ATD is 'crap'. 

I repeat: how your stance comes across is as some sort of didactic willy waving. You 'know' about all this math stuff, whereas we don't, so you are better placed to judge whether it's present in the book or not.