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jfinkels
July 19th, 2007, 11:53 PM
I highly recommend this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEB

I have read only the first 200 pages or so, but I can recognize even now that it is truly superb.

A background in computer science helps :D.

bread eyes
July 20th, 2007, 12:13 AM
A background in computer science helps.

Not really, he explains most of the stuff.

jfinkels
July 20th, 2007, 12:27 AM
Not really, he explains most of the stuff.

Er let me rephrase...It doesn't hurt.

bread eyes
July 20th, 2007, 12:58 AM
Er let me rephrase...It doesn't hurt.

Knowing Chinese don't "hurt" either but you didn't say anything about that.

strabes
July 20th, 2007, 01:32 AM
Knowing Chinese don't "hurt" either but you didn't say anything about that.

That was rude and unnecessary.


I have the Escher drawing of the waterfall (the one on the wikipedia article) hanging in my bedroom. It's such an awesome picture.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Escher_Waterfall.jpg

By the way, this is my 1,000th post.

bread eyes
July 20th, 2007, 03:17 AM
That was rude...

No it wasn't.

Starchild
July 20th, 2007, 08:56 AM
Hey, thanks man. This is the kind of food for thought I constantly crave. I think I will have to get my hands on this. This one seems to be interesting as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop

Wolki
July 20th, 2007, 02:02 PM
It is an awesome book, both entertaining and enlightening. Highly recommended.

Starchild
July 20th, 2007, 02:27 PM
Also check this one. It's a classic:

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimentions (http://books.google.com/books?id=tQX4oyMY-qwC&dq=intitle:flatland)