i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

I highly recommend the book Logicomix (http://www.logicomix.com/en/). Yes, it's a comic book. If it helps fortify your courage to be seen reading this in public, it's gotten good notices in the New York Times Book Review.

It won't teach you how to manipulate formal logic equations, but it gives a great background to some of the big questions of the age, and might be great for some of the more technical people who will live and die by computers. Who knew that von Neumann and Turing were heavily influenced by all this?

And it was fun to see how Russell's personality came across. One of my past profs was a student of his, and had much the same personality in certain areas... .