alt Hacker News> Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
I gave that book to my mathematician grandma, and she found it so boring she couldn’t finish it - “All this stuff was known for decades”. True anecdote.
> Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
I gave that book to my mathematician grandma, and she found it so boring she couldn’t finish it - “All this stuff was known for decades”. True anecdote.
Well, it's a pop-sci tome, not a research article.
However, it is pretty dated these days.