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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.