AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
The character Bartlebooth in George Perec's Life: A User's Manual devotes his life to an elaborate act of artistic meaninglessness, which mirrors the book itself, and ultimately fails even at nothingness.
This book definitely has math nerd appeal. The plot, such as it is, involves an elaborate creation of a set of jigsaw puzzles, and the structure contains numerous patterns and puzzles.