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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou

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Marcus du Sautoy loved it
But it's just a beautifully told story and also they talk about their writing of the book, so it's very self-referential, which is the whole key to Gödel's proof.

on fivebooks.com · 26 Sep 2014

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.