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Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid » (20th Anniversary Edition)

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Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN-13: 9780465026562, ISBN-10: 0465026567
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: 20th Anniversary Edition

Author Biography: Douglas R. Hofstadter

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas, The Mind’s I, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin.

Book Synopsis

G(del, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize–winning treatise exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt G(del, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A groundbreaking book that has set the standard for interdisciplinary writing. A book every thinking reader must have.

Martin Gardner

...a major literary event. -- Scientific American

	Overview
	List of Illustrations
	Words of Thanks
Pt. I	GEB
	Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering	3
	Three-Part Invention	29
Ch. I	The MU-puzzle	33
	Two-Part Invention	43
Ch. II	Meaning and Form in Mathematics	46
	Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles	61
Ch. III	Figure and Ground	64
	Contracrostipunctus	75
Ch. IV	Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry	82
	Little Harmonic Labyrinth	103
Ch. V	Recursive Structures and Processes	127
	Canon by Intervallic Augmentation	153
Ch. VI	The Location of Meaning	158
	Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud	177
Ch. VII	The Propositional Calculus	181
	Crab Canon	199
Ch. VIII	Typographical Number Theory	204
	A Mu Offering	231
Ch. IX	Mumon and Godel	246
Pt. II	EGB
	Prelude ...	275
Ch. X	Levels of Description, and Computer Systems	285
	... Ant Fugue	311
Ch. XI	Brains and Thoughts	337
	English French German Suite	366
Ch. XII	Minds and Thoughts	369
	Aria with Diverse Variations	391
Ch. XIII	BlooP and FlooP and GlooP	406
	Air on G's String	431
Ch. XIV	On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems	438
	Birthday Cantatatata ...	461
Ch. XV	Jumping out of the System	465
	Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker	480
Ch. XVI	Self-Ref and Self-Rep	495
	The Magnificrab, Indeed	549
Ch. XVII	Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others	559
	SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing	586
Ch. XVIII	Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects	594
	Contrafactus	633
Ch. XIX	Artificial Intelligence: Prospects	641
	Sloth Canon	681
Ch. XX	Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies	684
	Six-Part Ricercar	720
	Notes	743
	Bibliography	746
	Credits	757
	Index	759