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Metamagical themas : questing for the essence of mind and pattern
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Metamagical themas : questing for the essence of mind and pattern

Author: Douglas R Hofstadter
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©1985.
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Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.
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Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
Metamagical themas.
New York : Basic Books, c1985
(OCoLC)563123886
Online version:
Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
Metamagical themas.
New York : Basic Books, c1985
(OCoLC)607741948
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas R Hofstadter
ISBN: 0465045405 9780465045402 0140085343 9780140085341
OCLC Number: 11475807
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxviii, 852 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Douglas R. Hofstadter.
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Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.

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