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TO:   Ashok Subramanian
FROM: Bob Floyd
RE:   fun reading

A classic, little known book:  Perceptrons, by Minsky and Papert.

The early history of computability theory:  The Undecidable, edited by Martin Davis.

Philosophic  problems of computation: Minds and Machines, edited by Alan Anderson,
especially the Lucas-Putnam debate: can human mathematicians do more than machines
can?

Winning Ways, by Berlekamp and Conway. Theory of Nim-like games, raised to Olympian
heights.

L. Brilbuin, Science and Information Theory.