Even worse, he wrote in two different languages (French and Russian). Couldn’t he make up his mind?
I was fascinated by the tortoise and achilles dialogues when I was in middle school. The concept of a record player that could play anything and an album that couldn’t be played on the record player blew my tiny little mind.
Mu.
Ìt’s worth reading for the Achilles/Tortoise dialogues alone. Some of the mathematical parts may be skimmed through without harming the gist. You may need some time: I read it over a vacation, pen and paper to hand for the few “”“exercises for the reader” I attempted.
When I finished I had the same sense of epiphany I’d had on completing Darwin’s * Origin of Species *.
Go for it.
Don’t forget to look through the index:)