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Ronald Graham + Donald Knuth + Oren Patashnik, “Concrete Mathematics”
Goal of mathematics
52.
How to torture your mind
53.
Robert Shea + Robert A. Wilson, “The Eye in the Pyramid”
The law of fives
94.
John Archibald Wheeler
Problem of the Science
201.
Kurt Gödel
Unvollständigkeitssätze
349.
John Maxwell Coetzee, “Diary of a Bad Year”
Mathematico-mysticism
412.
Robert M. Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
Phædrus’ Law
422.
Robert M. Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
The Good and the Bad Facts
757.
Edward Tufte, “Envisioning Information”
Boring numbers
761.
Edward Tufte, “Beautiful Evidence”
Scales of measurement
820.
Venedikt Erofeev, “Moscow — Petushki”
Untouched nonpartisan brunettes
958.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”
12,345,678,910
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Randall Munroe, “What If?”
Throwing is hard
1336.
John Tukey
Approximation
1552.
Douglas Hofstadter, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
Copper, Silver, Gold
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Douglas Hofstadter, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
Round-the-house chess
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