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Linda Liukas's avatar

Aahhh, I've been looking for a book like this! So glad you're writing it. In no particular order:

George Dyson's new one, Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines, touches upon analogue machines, trees that count.. all kinds of wonderful computational things.

James Bridle's Ways of Being, also for the nature & computation angle.

I like the way Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Tom Griffiths balances between technically solid, but still approachable.

There seems to be more "humanistic" math books out there - Once Upon A Prime, Weil Conjectures, A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age - that might serve as inspiration on introducing ideas. Oh, and of course anything by Carlo Rovelli for poetic physics!

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Carolyn's avatar

I enjoyed browsing your stack of books. I hope you will write about Don Knuth. There are so many layers to Don, he deserves an entire book!

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