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by nikkaelle 2361 days ago
I particularly enjoyed _Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity_ by David Foster Wallace. It gave me a new appreciation of not only the last two centuries of math, but also the english language and the abuse of sentence structure, asides, and footnotes[1][2][3] for educational and entertainment purposes.

[1] so

[2] many

[3] footnotes[a]

[a] Which, I must say, I found interesting and informative[b]

[b] If a bit excessively nested.