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Try Raymond Smullyan. He has books at a range of levels of accessibility; I'm not sure if there's anything great for your 8th grader, but I remember first getti
by abecedarius 4y ago
Try Raymond Smullyan. He has books at a range of levels of accessibility; I'm not sure if there's anything great for your 8th grader, but I remember first getting into The Lady or the Tiger? as a teen.
- abrax3141 4y agoSmullyan's "Forever Undecided", and Ernest Nagel's "Gödel's Proof" are the best explanations available, to my mind. I find GEB to be bloated, if all that one is interested in is Gödel. (There is much more to recommend GEB, but if all you want is Gödel's proof, see one of the above.)