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Read gödel, escher, bach by Douglas Hofstaedter

• mayd 3y ago
  As the late Martin Gardiner opined: "Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognised at once as a major literary event. This is such a work." Nevertheless, Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker is, in my opinion, a better choice for the mathematically inclined layman interested in Goedel's discoveries and plenty of related mathematics. Rucker's book even includes an account of his (somewhat over-enfusive) meeting with the great man.