I feel I'm becoming smarter from reading Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach. It's a good, gentle introduction to some maths and logic topics that I reall

I feel I'm becoming smarter from reading Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach. It's a good, gentle introduction to some maths and logic topics that I really ought to learn about. It's also very artistic and touches on many different intellectual matters (music, painting, language...). Very thought provoking, and has already given me some good ideas for projects. Also pretty inspiring in that it shows what even a very young person can/could achieve by putting their mind to something, thinking systematically and writing expressively. Of course the central premise of the book ("how does a mind/self/consciousness arise from inanimate matter?") is profound... and great fodder for dinner parties! (ie. showing off)