19-04-2003, 01:36
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It's a SPAM thing...
AKA: George1083; George180
 FRC #0180 (SPAM) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Rookie Year: 1998
Location: Stuart, FL
Posts: 784
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Quote:
Originally posted by verdeyw
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofsteader.
GEB:EGB is the best book most computer science majors have ever read (if you indulge stereotypes). It explores a wide array of topics in mathmatics, Computer science, psychology, art, music, cognitive science, and biology, and links them together so as to give you an amazing viewpoint. After each chapter is a short dialogue that illustrates the previous chapter's subject. The material is pretty advanced, I first started reading it my sophomore year in college, and put it down after I realized I was out of my element. When I picked it back up my senior year, I was amazed. So if you can't "get it" right now, don't let it bug you too much.
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GEB is still one of the best books i've ever read. not many books can totally change your worldview... well, this one did for me.
i don't look at the world the same way as i did before i read GEB =-]
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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