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Maths
1556.
Douglas Hofstadter, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
Round-the-house chess
1552.
Douglas Hofstadter, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
Copper, Silver, Gold
1336.
John Tukey
Approximation
962.
Randall Munroe, “What If?”
Throwing is hard
958.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”
12,345,678,910
820.
Venedikt Erofeev, “Moscow — Petushki”
Untouched nonpartisan brunettes
761.
Edward Tufte, “Beautiful Evidence”
Scales of measurement
757.
Edward Tufte, “Envisioning Information”
Boring numbers
422.
Robert M. Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
The Good and the Bad Facts
412.
Robert M. Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
Phædrus’ Law
349.
John Maxwell Coetzee, “Diary of a Bad Year”
Mathematico-mysticism
201.
Kurt Gödel
Unvollständigkeitssätze
94.
John Archibald Wheeler
Problem of the Science
53.
Robert Shea + Robert A. Wilson, “The Eye in the Pyramid”
The law of fives
52.
How to torture your mind
50.
Ronald Graham + Donald Knuth + Oren Patashnik, “Concrete Mathematics”
Goal of mathematics