Now I'm getting the chance to read books I didn't have time for before. Think of me whenever you see the slogan "So many books, so little time!" Now I've got the time.  Cheers, Fred.

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I Am a Strange Loop

Posted Thu, 03/19/2009 - 9:08am by fred
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Book Number: 
203
Date Fred Read: 
April 2007
Fred's Rating: 
2
Author: 
Douglas Hofstadter
Total Pages: 
363
Publisher: 
Basic Books; Reprint edition
Year: 
2008

Douglas Hofstadter is Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana Univefsity. In 2007 Amazon.com listed 8 books by him. [See my review of his splendid book 149 Gödel, Escher, and Bach (aka GEB).]  Read more

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Posted Tue, 03/17/2009 - 10:32am by fred
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Book Number: 
183
Date Fred Read: 
December 2006
Fred's Rating: 
3
Author: 
Ray Kurzweil
Total Pages: 
260
Publisher: 
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Year: 
2000

Ray Kurzweil is an internationally recognized expert on computers and AI (artificial intelligence). Amazon.com lists his works in book, digital or audio. This book was a national bestseller.  Read more

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Gödel’s Proof

Posted Sun, 03/15/2009 - 5:01pm by fred
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Book Number: 
160
Date Fred Read: 
June 2006
Fred's Rating: 
3
Author: 
Ernest Nagel
Author: 
James Newman
Author: 
Douglas Hofstadter, editor
Total Pages: 
113
Publisher: 
New York University Press
Year: 
2001

Ernest Nagel and James Newman describe for the layman the famous “Incompleteness Theorem” of the mathematics genius Kurt Gödel. It was updated and edited in 2001 by Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote the foreword.  Read more

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Gödel, Escher, and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Posted Sat, 03/14/2009 - 1:07pm by fred
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Book Number: 
149
Date Fred Read: 
February 2006
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Total Pages: 
742
Publisher: 
Basic Books; 20 Anv edition
Year: 
2009

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology at Indiana University. (For his books I've read, click on his name.)  Read more

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Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So

Posted Sat, 02/28/2009 - 12:30pm by fred
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Book Number: 
50
Date Fred Read: 
September 2003
Fred's Rating: 
4
Author: 
Ian Stewart
Total Pages: 
294
Publisher: 
Basic Books
Year: 
2002

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He recently received the AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science. By 2003 he had published over 60 books, including "The Science of Discworld" and "Does God Play Dice?" Britian's priemere science journal "Nature" calls Flatterland “a superb sequel” to Flatland (book 49).  Read more

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The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated)

Posted Sat, 02/28/2009 - 12:18pm by fred
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Book Number: 
49
Date Fred Read: 
September 2003
Fred's Rating: 
5
Author: 
Ian Stewart
Total Pages: 
200
Publisher: 
Basic Books; Reprint edition
Year: 
2008

Ian Stewart's extensive annotations added much historical information to the original little book "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott, with Introduction, Notes and Appendix by Ian Stewart. (See also his book 50 "Flatterland".)  Read more

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