Two books come to mind almost immedatley one fiction, the other non-fiction. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, this really shook my belief in the mean

Two books come to mind almost immedatley one fiction, the other non-fiction. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, this really shook my belief in the meaning of ordered data. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, I read this right after I finished high-school, and it turned a math-hating young man into a math obsessed man.