Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon) is not only great science fiction, it'll also teach you a bit about math, integration properties, cryptography and even Perl!
I convinced my mother, a small business owner, to read partway through it. Explaining security concerns vis à vis their systems has become increasingly easy. (She doesn't know all the details, but gets better than ever that she/they need to pay close and timely attention to these things -- and contract/hire competent people to manage them.)
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Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon) is not only great science fiction, it'll also teach you a bit about math, integration properties, cryptography and even Perl!
I convinced my mother, a small business owner, to read partway through it. Explaining security concerns vis à vis their systems has become increasingly easy. (She doesn't know all the details, but gets better than ever that she/they need to pay close and timely attention to these things -- and contract/hire competent people to manage them.)