Re:My math is cool (Score 1)

This is a fantastic book. I attended a weekend summer school once where the topic was logic. We built our own logic gates, among other things. And this was the textbook.

This book does a few things. It challenges thought about logic, the way the mind works (mind vs brain), and brings in just enough of the hard stuff (you know, set theory, godel's theorem etc). The stories are interwoven exceptionally well - it's almost too easy to miss the point that is being made about the following chapter.

There's enough in here to keep a range of students interested - from those with a minor interest in psychology, logic or maths, to those hard core types who will be able to read through to the end (it usually starts getting hard for me about 3/4 of the way in, so i put it down for a year or so, and start from the beginning again)

I wouldn't set the whole book as extra credit, but the a few chapters would be a good start.