Living Logic: Alan Turing, French Flags & Cat Tails
Online:
- On the Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis – Alan Turing (1952)
- ‘The chemical basis of morphogenesis’ from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London – The Alan Turing Archive
- Forging Patterns and Making Waves from Biology to Geology: a Commentary on Turing (1952) ‘The chemical basis of morphogenesis’ – Philip Ball
The Logical Prophet: Godel’s Prediction of the Future
Online:
Print:
- 112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russel, Gödel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science, by Burton Feldman and Katherine Williams
- A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein, by Palle Yourgrau
- There’s Something About Gödel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem, by Francesco Berto
- Reflections on Kurt Gödel, by Hao Wang
- The Goddess Of Small Victories, by Yannick Grannec
- Gödel, Escher, Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
- Logical Dilemmas : The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel, by John W. Dawson, Jr.
- Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, by Rebecca Goldstein
Essential Nonsense, or: This Is Your Brain on Dreams
Online:
- Let’s Sleep on It – Lea Winerman
- Podcast: Dreams – Radiolab
- Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter – Scientific American
Print:
- The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest, by Penelope A. Lewis
- The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream, by Andrea Rock
- Trauma and Dreams, by Deirdre Barrett
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Did You Literally Just Say That?
Online:
Print:
- Wittgenstein in Vienna: A Biographical Excursion Through the City and Its History, by Allen Janik and Hans Veigl
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, A Memoir, by Norman Malcolm and Georg Henrik Von Wright
- Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction, by A. C. Grayling
The Not So Simple(x) Algorithm
Online:
- Linear Programming and it’s Extensions – George B. Dantzig
Print:
- The 900 Days: the Siege of Leningrad, by Harrison E. Salisbury
Thinking Like Sherlock Holmes
Online:
- How to Improve Your Memory: The Method of Loci – How Stuff Works
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The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace – Smithsonian
Print:
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Cicero de Oratore, by Marcus Tullius Cicero
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Daniel Cohen, Kurt Larson, Greg Taubman, Michelle Larson, Lilia Gutnik, and Amy Mains. Thank you!
