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I thought of a few others that are "fun":

- The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold

- Quantum Computing since Democritus by Scott Aaronson

- Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries by Marvin Jay Greenberg (a textbook, but an easy one to read on your own)

- Gödel's Proof by Nagel and Newman (best if he can read it with a partner and talk through the steps)

- Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire

Some of those have already been mentioned, but consider this another vote for them. :-)



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