GÖDEL, ESCHER, BACH

[Solenoidclock]

This book was recommended to me by a mathematics professor who went to school with the author. It took me three hours to track it down once I found a bookstore that had it because the subjects covered are so diverse! Math, art, music, philosophy, cognitive science, the occult, logic, fugues and canons, ant colonies, Holism, Buddhism, recursion, genetics, creativity, free will..

  I'm overwhelmed. It has an Alice in Wonderland feel, despite being nonfiction.
Has anyone here encountered this? If not, I already recommend it.

[buttplug]

Would you still recommend this?

[SirClock]

Fantastic book.

He explains the phenomenon of interconnectedness and infinity from numerous angles using traditional mathematics, science and logic.

Inevitably the book goes very deep and can be quite overwhelming, but I'd recommend it to anyone even curious who'd be willing to give it a try.

He doesn't dish out ready-made conclusions but rather develops points until the conclusions become unavoidable. Such is the perfection of the book, because the conclusions are usually things people do not tend to immediately accept.

[buttplug]

Found some lectures on the book, here is the first of seven parts:
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[clockradioclock]

I got this book just last week. I haven't started it yet, I'm saving it for the holidays.

[buttplug]

I ordered it from amazon but they didn't tape the fucking box so it got ripped and bent so I have to return it. I am reading a library copy right now. It is a very interactive book, he has a lot of activities he asks you to try in order to demonstrate an idea.

[clockradioclock]

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to getting it started. I finish the semester on Wednesday, so it shouldn't be long.

I got mine at my nearest bookstore. Sorry to hear about the delivery problem, online stuff is always a hassle compared to getting things within an hour or so at the shop.

[DigitalLemonClock]

read about half a few years ago, lost the book somewhere

maybe i should order it again