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Re:Ask HN: Best books on understanding recursion? by ehudla on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:16AM (#11944013)
Goedel, Escher, Bach. Nothing comes close. It will blow your mind.
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Re:Ask HN: Best books on understanding recursion? by selmat on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:30AM (#11944058)
http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/humanities-and-social-science...
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Re:Ask HN: Best books on understanding recursion? by ehudla on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @04:26AM (#11944313)
And speaking of DRH (Doug Hofstadter) in his Metamagical Themas collection, the last three (?) chapters are a quick and delightful introduction to Lisp and recursion.
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