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note the author is Douglas Hofstadter who wrote Godel Escher Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6d

by d--b 1y ago

note the author is Douglas Hofstadter who wrote Godel Escher Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

Nifty3929 1y ago
Such a great book! I feel like skimming through it again now, to remind myself exactly how Godel's argument worked.
- cwmoore 1y ago
  In addition to a few satori moments, and some envy for the fruits of the author’s intellectual freedom, I recall a lot of odd dialogue as aphilosophical and cartoonish as the parts of Nietschze that are never quoted. How much of the book is “good”?
  - cwmoore 1y ago
    Asking for a friend.
jjcc 1y ago
Exactly. Along with a few other books.
- librasteve 1y ago
  GEB still holds pride of place on my bookshelf, I would be interested to hear what are the others you recommend. Have you read The Planiverse by AK Dewdeney?
analog31 1y ago
GEB was what really turned me on to math. I mean, I was good at math by the standards of a mid-tier high school, but was satisfied to work through the problems and proofs, or use math in my physics class and electronics hobby. But my older brother read GEB then gave it to me. I had also been reading Hofstadter's "Mathematical Games" in Scientific American. But GEB exposed me to a level of math that seemed to beyond puzzles and applications. Or maybe it was just his engaging style. Or my cool big brother. Regardless, I started college as a math major. Other things happened since then, and I now have a physics degree, but still enjoy math as an end unto itself.