Buy it here. 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' by Douglas Hofstadter (1979) A logical-philosophical-computational tour de force. Very long, very rewarding. I read it between the end of high school and the ...

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Although little known, it is a landmark of 20th-century thought. The proof brought to light certain astonishing limitations which have always been inherent in mathematics and mathematical logic ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by anatomist Wilhelm His. Andreas Otte examined the ...

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Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems of 1931 are among the most iconic scientific achievements of the 20th century. Gödel's results led to the development of formal languages and algorithmic ...

The Gabelsberger shorthand system was invented by Franz Xaver Gabelsberger in 1817 and finally published in 1834 as the textbook Anleitung zur deutschen Redezeichenkunst oder Stenographie. It is said ...

Project Escher is your basic Cartesian filament printer, but with a twist: it has five heads. These print heads work together to build large objects very quickly. Autodesk open sourced the design ...

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