Who recommends it
- Jim Al-KhaliliInterview
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. It’s a remarkable book bringing together lots of ideas in philosophy, mathematics and art. I read it as a student and it help convince me that full-time contemplation of the profound nature of the Universe…
- Jordan MechnerInterview
I’d recommend that aspiring game developers and screenwriters read Essays by George Orwell (including “Politics and the English Language” and “Why I Write”); Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl; and Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter. I wouldn’t push books about how to make games or movies, because the…
- David PizarroInterview
Just a few that come to mind: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, Witness for the Defense by Elizabeth Loftus, the graphic novel Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, and The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot…
- Brian ChristianInterview
Probably Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It’s just this utterly unique, sui generis book, an 800-page tour de force that charts this web of intersections across number theory, art history, and music theory, all done in this incredibly mischievous and clever style, and amounting to an argument about the…
- Daniel CohenInterview
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein; Gödel, Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot; The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan; The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut; The Human Stain by Philip Roth; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers K by David James…
- Pedro DomingosInterview
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