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glimshe 46 minutes ago [-]
If you can read this book cover-to-cover, you're an absolute hero. Sometimes I wonder if they inserted a big logical error in the middle just to troll people under the assumption nobody would bother to read it.
gumby 39 minutes ago [-]
You mean you don’t have a framed, signed, bug-bounty cheque from Alfred North Whitehead on your wall??
More seriously, there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.
voxadam 14 minutes ago [-]
>there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.
Which leads us to our next impenetrable book, Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
m-hodges 3 minutes ago [-]
I read GEB cover to cover and haven’t stopped thinking about it for years. Not a brag, a nudge that it’s not impenetrable and more people should read it.
analog31 7 minutes ago [-]
GEB was one of the books that inspired me to study math in college. It made math come to life in way that my high school courses didn't.
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kjellsbells 9 minutes ago [-]
I used to wonder how likely it was that the printers made some typesetting errors. Who among us could, say, type a tbousand pages of APL symbols without introducing a bug?
More seriously, there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.
Which leads us to our next impenetrable book, Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.