by Douglas R. Hofstadter
An excellent follow up to his Pulitzer winning "Goedel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid" Written in an essay format Dr Hofstadter delves into everything from Rubik's cube to short biographies of science greats - and all these wide ranging essays are organized into a coherent, intricately orga...
I lugged this massive book around with me for awhile during my senior year of high school. I remember finding it rambling but brilliant. I was fascinated by his essays on typography and on the subtle sexism of English honorifics like "Mrs" and "Miss".
The thing I loved about this one is the playfulness involved. Sometimes I thought my head was going to explode from the weird wonderfulness of the ideas. The two chapters on self-referential sentences were absolutely delightful. Some I recall: "It goes without saying that""Let us make a new conve...
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