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		arisbe__ on Feb 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/o... What initially turned me into a curious person were Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman & Godel, Escher, Bach. Then Book of Proof & Forallx: an introduction to formal logic helped me develop an interest in mathematics. But what was really a kind of aesthetic crack was The UNIX Programming Environment and The TeXbook.

cpach on Feb 27, 2022 [–]

I really enjoyed reading The TeXbook. I found it very approachable.

Here’s a link for the curious: https://www.worldcat.org/title/texbook-describes-tex-version...

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