Biography of John von Neumann. I don’t think I like him much after reading this. I knew he was involved with the atomic bomb development, but not that he was so central to so much military research. Also, the explanations for the mathematics I have studied were quite weak (no idea about how good are the physics though).
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Leonardo Pacheco finished reading Proofs and refutations by Imre Lakatos
Leonardo Pacheco finished reading Epicureanism by Catherine Wilson (Very Short Introductions)
Catherine Wilson: Epicureanism (2015, Oxford University Press)
Epicureanism by Catherine Wilson (Very Short Introductions)
Leonardo Pacheco finished reading Clausewitz by Michael Eliot Howard (Very short introductions -- 61)
Clausewitz by Michael Eliot Howard, Michael Howard (Very short introductions -- 61)
Leonardo Pacheco finished reading On Revision by William Germano
Leonardo Pacheco finished reading Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and …
Leonardo Pacheco finished reading Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky
Biography of Kurt Gödel. It was a pretty interesting read, and also gives a very nice landscape of logic in Europe before WWII (both the people and the results).
Leonardo Pacheco finished reading Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. …
A few good ideas, but mostly meh. I think I liked Borges better when I read him in portuguese. Many stories read as ‘look at this weird math’; personally, I feel more satisfied with proper books on mathematical logic.
Leonardo Pacheco started reading Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths (1970, Penguin)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, …