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mathematician by the way, programmer by all accounts, physicist by a trick involving renormalisation, some dork matter, and a goat, linguist by listening to silly songs in many languages, writer by drinking tea, taking baths, and going for walks.
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LectureDesolée, cette page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Whenever my mind, eyes and hands are not otherwise occupied, I read. Mostly this means on the bus or while I'm eating. I have to read whenever I can, because I buy too many books and I'd have no chance of getting through them otherwise. Here are some of my favourites.| Le Mystère de la Patience, par Jostein G | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. This is an incredible book, much better, in my opinion, than Gaarder's much acclaimed Sophie's World. I've read it several times now. I've even read it in French. It has fantastic stories within stories which interrelate and it all resolves beautifully.. It was interesting to read it again after Gödel, Escher, Bach, since the concepts of tangled hierarchies, stacks and strange loops all apply in some way. | | Le Mystère de la Patience, par Jostein G | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. This is an incredible book, much better, in my opinion, than Gaarder's much acclaimed Sophie's World. I've read it several times now. I've even read it in French. It has fantastic stories within stories which interrelate and it all resolves beautifully.. It was interesting to read it again after Gödel, Escher, Bach, since the concepts of tangled hierarchies, stacks and strange loops all apply in some way. | | Gödel, Escher, Bach : Les Brins d'une Guirlande Éternelle, par Douglas Hofstadter | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Over the course of several years, this book was recommended to me by three friends and another book before I eventually bought it. It's awesome. Full of puns and self-reference, which is no accident; self-reference is one of the main themes. There are enough people singing its praises that I needn't do so here. Lire la suite | | Gödel, Escher, Bach : Les Brins d'une Guirlande Éternelle, par Douglas Hofstadter | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. Over the course of several years, this book was recommended to me by three friends and another book before I eventually bought it. It's awesome. Full of puns and self-reference, which is no accident; self-reference is one of the main themes. There are enough people singing its praises that I needn't do so here. Lire la suite | | The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. This is meant for children but I enjoyed it immensely... it's chock full of puns, and idioms taken literally. | | The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. This is meant for children but I enjoyed it immensely... it's chock full of puns, and idioms taken literally. | | Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang, by Jonathan Allday | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I'd read plenty about particle physics before, but I think it was only after reading that book that I really felt like I understood it. That really got me interested again. It presents all the particles and their interactions very clearly, with some very humourous footnotes. In fact, it got me so interested that I ended up applying for, and getting, a fellowship at CERN. I wrote to Jonathan Allday to thank him and he was nice enough to send me some of a new book he's working on. I just checked Amazon and noticed there's a new book by him coming out soon, called Quantum Reality, so I assume that's it. I'll have to order it.
Lire la suite | | Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang, by Jonathan Allday | Desolée, cette partie de la page n'a pas encore été traduite en français. Voici la version anglaise. I'd read plenty about particle physics before, but I think it was only after reading that book that I really felt like I understood it. That really got me interested again. It presents all the particles and their interactions very clearly, with some very humourous footnotes. In fact, it got me so interested that I ended up applying for, and getting, a fellowship at CERN. I wrote to Jonathan Allday to thank him and he was nice enough to send me some of a new book he's working on. I just checked Amazon and noticed there's a new book by him coming out soon, called Quantum Reality, so I assume that's it. I'll have to order it.
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