Gödel's theorem in particular lends itself to this sort of thing. For more mathematical schadenfreude, I like Franzen's "An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse" <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Godels-Theorem-Incomplete-Guide-Abuse/dp/1568812388" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Godels-Theorem-Incomplete-Guide-Abuse/...</a><p>Hackers will be interested especially in the rather weak attempts to use Gödel to make all sorts of silly inferences about artificial intelligence and the nature of mind.<p>Probably no scientific result of the 20th centry, except maybe the theory of relativity, has been used by so many to prove so much while understanding so little.