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Godel, Escher, Bach is eight hundred pages, won a Pulitzer, and is one of the most frequently abandoned books on any shelf — usually somewhere in the formal-systems chapters, by readers who came for the Escher and were not expecting to prove things.

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Godel, Escher, Bach is eight hundred pages, won a Pulitzer, and is one of the most frequently abandoned books on any shelf — usually somewhere in the formal-systems chapters, by readers who came for the Escher and were not expecting to prove things.
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A strong starting point is Analogy-Making As Perception by Melanie Mitchell. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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