Oddly enough, the copy I read as a child was a pre-press unbound proof, my dad had received for review purposes (he was a professor of computer science and a ma

Oddly enough, the copy I read as a child was a pre-press unbound proof, my dad had received for review purposes (he was a professor of computer science and a mathematician) he, my elder brothers and sisters my mother and I were all blown away by it. An amazing tour de force. Possibly the best pop Sci book of it's time. (4 of the six of us were in compsci and the other two in visual arts and music so almost any of it worked somewhere, somehow for us. All three fields right there in the title)