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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, a... »
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
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I actually tried the techniques in this book while taking freshman physics at Harvard. They weren't all that helpful. I remember it sounding good, but being fairly useless when it came to attacking challenging textbook and recitation problems (which are a far cry from actual scientific questions). What I eventually learned was that the key to such so-c... »
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Logic For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
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While I thought this book was laid-out well and served as a good introduction, I was disappointed to see such a large number of errors in the book. It made me wonder if anyone had bothered to proof-read it at all. These mistakes can potentially be severely misleading to the reader unless you are alert and recognize what Zegarelli meant to say.
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How to Prove It: A Structured Approach
I am a math instructor, and hate proofs even more than the students do. However, this book is about the process of formal proof, from a logician's viewpoi... »
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Godel's Proof
Gödel's incompleteness theorem--which showed that any robust mathematical system contains statements that are true yet unprovable within the system--... »
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Schaum's Outline of Logic
To solve the riddle beguiling the world
School your mind in the fine art of logic:
No method besides will conjure the clues.
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The Equations: Icons of Knowledge
The book describes in a reasonable way the main ideas from the physics equations giving interesting highlighs of each. It is a lean book, pleasant and ver... »
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