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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid

Author: Douglas R Hofstadter
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©1999.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 20th anniversary edView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Johann Sebastian Bach; M C Escher; Kurt Gödel
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas R Hofstadter
ISBN: 0394756827 9780394756820 0465026567 9780465026562
OCLC Number: 40724766
Description: 23, vi-xxi, 777 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: GEB:A musico-logical offering -- The mu-puzzle -- Meaning and form in mathematics -- Figure and ground -- Consistency, completeness, and geometry -- Recursive structures and processes -- The location of meaning -- The propositional calculus -- Typographical number theory -- Mumon and Godel -- EGB: Levels of description and computer systems -- Brains and thoughts -- Minds and thoughts -- Bloop and floop and gloop -- On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems -- Jumping out of the system -- Self-ref and self-rep -- Church, turing, tarski, and others -- Artificial intelligence: retrospects -- Artificial intelligence: prospects -- Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies.
Responsibility: Douglas R. Hofstadter.
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