I read this book in highschool in the 1980s when it was soooooo trendy. Hoping I might be able to understand it better with fifteen more years of thinking under my belt, I picked it up again. WRONG. Here's the thing: a book can have the most beautiful ideas ever thought, but if those ideas are hid...
This is my favorite nonfiction book of all time. The ideas he explores come into play in such disparate fields as genetics, weather, music, math, and artificial intelligence. The presentation is brilliant, with much witty wordplay and intricate inter-references between things like zen koans, Magri...
This is a nice book if you want to understand the Gödel incompleteness proof, and get an account that is both accessible and reasonably rigorous. There's a lot of other fun stuff as well, but it's the Gödel proof that's the core of the book, and if that doesn't turn you on then you aren't really goi...
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