I just finished reading this book. I really enjoyed it and recommend it if you have interests similar to mine. It chronicles the development of mathematical logic, especially as it relates to computers. The characters include Boole, Cantor, Gödel, Turing, and others. This is the area of mathematics I find most interesting.

When I first became an undergraduate here at UW, I entered in the computer engineering program rather than the computer science program, where my interests now primarily lie. In retrospect, I think what I really wanted to do was the sort of thing the people in the later parts of this book did. I soon realized, however, that the fundamental ideas of computers have long since been very thoroughly invented, and nobody was doing the sort of thing I wanted to do anymore. The overall organization and design of computers hasn't really changed since the time of Turing and von Nuemann; the implementation has just become more complicated as we push for more performance.