[miobrien]

Any recommendations as far as his writings go?

Pretty substantial list here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/papers/index.htm

[protomyth]

I was introduced to fuzzy logic by Earl Cox’s book[1] then I read through his papers[2]. I think reading the book helped a lot since it gave practical examples and code.

1) https://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Systems-Handbook-Second-Practit... I had the 1st but 2nd is better

2) that list looks pretty complete but it has been some years