Having read some other DeLillo, I had high hopes for this book and wow I could barely get through it. But, I was hoping to read a novel that was genuinely interested in math and mathematicians. This is not that.

DeLillo's mathematicians looked to me like arty literary types playing mathematicians at a costume party, using big words to impress each other in their mutual ignorance. The math is half-educated simplistic stuff, basic calculations and concepts that average middle-schoolers could get through and that aren't the kind of thing actual mathematics bothers with. "A perfumed fog, shot through with lightning" as a much better novelist said.

And then, why a Nobel (there isn't one for math) instead of a Fields medal? Why all the gross-out schtick? Moving on.