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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
A wonderful read which covers many topics of formal logic, AI, human consciousness, programming, natural number theory, music, art and many more. Never felt as dumb from reading a book before.
Quite a difficult read if you know nothing of logic, AI and so on, but if you stick with it you will surely learn a lot about all of these topics.
Oddly enough, not explicit stated, one of the best descriptions of how object oriented programming works is hidden in there as well.
I can't recommend this book enough, but one should be prepared that GEB is not an easy read unless you already are quite familiar in all the above listed topics and even so.
Definitely a book I will reread many more times to come
Quite a difficult read if you know nothing of logic, AI and so on, but if you stick with it you will surely learn a lot about all of these topics.
Oddly enough, not explicit stated, one of the best descriptions of how object oriented programming works is hidden in there as well.
I can't recommend this book enough, but one should be prepared that GEB is not an easy read unless you already are quite familiar in all the above listed topics and even so.
Definitely a book I will reread many more times to come