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Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by beltsazar on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:51PM (#29670359)
Hands down, the most fascinating book I read in 2021 (and I will have read for a long time!) is "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" by James Gleick: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400096235

Those who have a computer science background will almost definitely love the book. It connects many dots that are previously seemingly unrelated. My jaw dropped for literally every few pages of most chapters.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by micmankos on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:04AM (#29670445)
Claude Shannon had quite the mind.

"A Mind at Play" is a good book on Shannon's life and "The Bit Player" is a good partner movie to watch :)

"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" and "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" paved the way for much of modern computing.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by d1str0 on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:48AM (#29670691)
A Mind At Play was fantastic. :)
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by victorbstan on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:58PM (#29670406)
I didn’t read it this year, but can confirm 10/10 would read again.
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