Vacation. It has been a bit, but the last thing of note that I read, was "The practice of the presence of God" by Brother Lawrence. It is an oldie, 17th century, but is just the kind of simple spirituality that makes sense to me.
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Hooray for project Gutenberg.
Sounds interesting, and off the beaten path, and I guess more modern than a lot of philosophers (I assume it's a philosophical text) people study. All good things.
I read a book about foundations of math, not a textbook, that was pretty great. Can't think of name or author atm and don't wanna get up.
I took a history of math course in college just for fun. It was only one credit, but it was a lot of fun.
Ooh, nice. I'm digging it. I like knowing a bit more about not so much the characters, but how long ideas took to gestate, or how some commonly accepted things these days took decades to iron out.
Take Russel's paradox (set of all sets that do not contain themselves), such a simple thing, yet it was a huge deal at the time, making obsolete a bunch of work others had toiled over. Or accepting properties of real numbers. Cool stuff