I have to say, this is exactly the kind of book a teenager will deem profound.
It’s essentially the same chapter rephrased about 20 times and manages to stretch a rather simple idea (conceptually, not the proof behind it) way too long. 100 pages would have been enough.
Maybe I’m biased, because I read it after graduating in computer science, but to me it seemed rather meh. Yeah, recursion exists, yeah fractals are weird, yeah systems can’t accurately describe themselves.
Yeah, recursion exists, yeah fractals are weird, yeah systems can’t accurately describe themselves.
That’s basically all I remember from the book, I figured that I had just forgotten most of it. I was unfortunately one of those 13-year-olds who thought they were much smarter and deeper than they were, so the book being full of itself definitely tracks.
I have to say, this is exactly the kind of book a teenager will deem profound.
It’s essentially the same chapter rephrased about 20 times and manages to stretch a rather simple idea (conceptually, not the proof behind it) way too long. 100 pages would have been enough.
Maybe I’m biased, because I read it after graduating in computer science, but to me it seemed rather meh. Yeah, recursion exists, yeah fractals are weird, yeah systems can’t accurately describe themselves.
That’s basically all I remember from the book, I figured that I had just forgotten most of it. I was unfortunately one of those 13-year-olds who thought they were much smarter and deeper than they were, so the book being full of itself definitely tracks.
I mean, that’s just how teenagers are.