Le 24/05/2011 10:10, Invisible a écrit :
> A lot of people seem to think that Godel, Escher, Bach is some kind of
> iconic master work. After slogging through several chapters of dry, dull
> text, I eventually became so bored that I stopped reading it.

It helps if you can appreciate the music from Bach (I'm fond of the
harpsichord parts, I just hate them on piano most of the time), as well
as finding interest in the images of Escher.
The Gödel part is at the end (well, middle) and is really deep about
string manipulation. If you are not the kind to double check a
mathematical demonstration in a text but rather skip over it, then it
might be dull. Anyway, GEB is mainly Gödel's theorem  for Dummies, with
extra arts and some classical paradoxes.

-- 
Software is like dirt - it costs time and money to change it and move it
around.

Just because you can't see it, it doesn't weigh anything,
and you can't drill a hole in it and stick a rivet into it doesn't mean
it's free.

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