Re: good books
"marc" <[email protected]>
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"Marcel van der Boom" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > marc wrote: > > And of course, if you hadn't read it yet, the classic: Goedel, Escher, Bach > > by Douglas Hofstadter. Twenty years old but utterly cool. > One of my favorites. His book "metamagical themes" is somewhat more > diverse on subjects. Also couple of hundred pages. > > I once attended a lecture of him, and he literally rambled about 4 > minutes about a 450 pt green space set in Times Roman versus a 450pt > green space set in Courier. (the rest of the lecture was also fun) For a moment I thought you meant Goedel. From what I've read he would have rambled on a lot longer...