Read this for college and usually that makes me prejudiced against the book, simply because it's for my education. Screw education. Nyaaah. 
 Regardless, I still thought this was a very witty play. There's a lot of heavy maths, understanding it isn't exactly needed but if you do then you can understand the subtle (sneaky) themes that Stoppard has going on. Not going to lie, if I hadn't been doing iterated algorithms in philosophy I wouldn't understand the mathsy bit. 
 It was actually surprisingly funny. I am a sucker for the angsty sarcastic character in any form of literature and here Septimus did not dissapoint. 
 This is a nice quick read that makes you feel smarter at the end because it mentions maths...wait that's probably just me.