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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6825781 Title: Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid Author: Douglas R Hofstadter Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1980, ©1979. ISBN/ISSN: 0394745027 9780394745022 OCLC:6825781

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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid

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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid

Author:	Douglas R Hofstadter
Publisher:	New York : Vintage Books, 1980, ©1979.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st Vintage Books edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the manner of Lewis Carroll"--Cover subtitle.
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Named Person:	Johann Sebastian Bach; M C Escher; Kurt Gödel; Johann Sebastian Bach; M C Escher; Kurt Gödel
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Douglas R Hofstadter Find more information about:
ISBN:	0394745027 9780394745022
OCLC Number:	6825781
Notes:	Reprint of the ed. published by Basic Books, New York. Includes index.
Description:	xxi, 777 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Words of Thanks -- GEB -- Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering -- Three-Part Invention -- The MU-puzzle -- Two-Part Invention -- Meaning and Form in Mathematics -- Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles -- Figure and Ground -- Contracrostipunctus -- Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry -- Little Harmonic Labyrinth -- Recursive Structures and Processes -- Canon by Intervallic Augmentation -- The Location of Meaning -- Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud -- The Propositional Calculus -- Crab Canon -- Typographical Number Theory -- A Mu Offering -- Mumon and Godel -- EGB -- Prelude ... -- Levels of Description, and Computer Systems -- ... Ant Fugue -- Brains and Thoughts -- English French German Suite -- Minds and Thoughts -- Aria with Diverse Variations -- BlooP and FlooP and GlooP -- Air on G's String -- On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems -- Birthday Cantatatata ... -- Jumping out of the System -- Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker -- Self-Ref and Self-Rep -- The Magnificrab, Indeed -- Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others -- Shrdlu, Toy of Man's Designing -- Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects -- Contrafactus -- Artificial Intelligence: Prospects -- Sloth Canon -- Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies -- Six-Part Ricercar.
Responsibility:	Douglas R. Hofstadter.

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