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Science

One butterfly at a time

The book Butterfly in the Quantum World speaks loudest to a reader in its spirit, its scientific and mathematical curiosity, its willingness to be surprised at every turn.

7 min read4 Nov 2017
Opinion

Butterfly on the wall

There's no end to the patterns you can discover in numbers. You might even stumble on one that nobody has seen before. That's Douglas Hofstadter's 'endlessly rich world'

4 min read10 Mar 2017
Mint-lounge

Gödel, Escher, Bach: When logic flies out of the window

On the subject of human consciousness, there is no better book than Douglas Hofstadter's cult classic

4 min read14 Aug 2016

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