What is the author's style in Brazzaville Beach: A Novel by William Boyd?

The extensive use of mathematical and scientific language can at first be overwhelming to a reader who is not particularly knowledgeable in these areas. Much of the mathematical explanations are beyond the average reader and must, therefore, be read within the context of their relationship the author attempts to draw between both the stability and instability of the world of mathematical theorems, axioms, lemmae, and the as yet undefined and unexplained.