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Godel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid
Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-

Publisher:	Vintage Books,
Pub date:	1980, c1979.
Pages:	xxi, 777 p. :
ISBN:	0394745027
Item info:	1 copy available at Whittier Central Library.

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Summary

This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Copyright � Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Author Biography

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Table of Contents

Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary Edition	P-1
Overview	p. viii
List of Illustrations	p. xiv
Words of Thanks	p. xix
Part I GEB
Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering	p. 3
Three-Part Invention	p. 29
Chapter I The MU-puzzle	p. 33
Two-Part Invention	p. 43
Chapter II Meaning and Form in Mathematics	p. 46
Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles	p. 61
Chapter III Figure and Ground	p. 64
Contracrostipunctus	p. 75
Chapter IV Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry	p. 82
Little Harmonic Labyrinth	p. 103
Chapter V Recursive Structures and Processes	p. 127
Canon by Intervallic Augmentation	p. 153
Chapter VI The Location of Meaning	p. 158
Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud	p. 177
Chapter VII The Propositional Calculus	p. 181
Crab Canon	p. 199
Chapter VIII Typographical Number Theory	p. 204
A Mu Offering	p. 231
Chapter IX Mumon and Godel	p. 246
Part II EGB	p. 275
Prelude ...	p. 285
Chapter X Levels of Description, and Computer Systems	p. 285
... Ant Fugue	p. 311
Chapter XI Brains and Thoughts	p. 337
English French German Suite	p. 366
Chapter XII Minds and Thoughts	p. 369
Aria with Diverse Variations	p. 391
Chapter XIII BlooP and FlooP and GlooP	p. 406
Air on G's String	p. 431
Chapter XIV On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems	p. 438
Birthday Cantatatata ...	p. 461
Chapter XV Jumping out of the System	p. 465
Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker	p. 480
Chapter XVI Self-Ref and Self-Rep	p. 495
The Magnificrab, Indeed	p. 549
Chapter XVII Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others	p. 559
Shrdlu, Toy of Man's Designing	p. 586
Chapter XVIII Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects	p. 594
Contrafactus	p. 633
Chapter XIX Artificial Intelligence: Prospects	p. 641
Sloth Canon	p. 681
Chapter XX Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies	p. 684
Six-Part Ricercar	p. 720
Notes	p. 743
Bibliography	p. 746
Credits	p. 757
Index	p. 759

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Personal Author:	Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
Title:	Godel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Edition:	1st Vintage Books ed.
Publication info:	New York : Vintage Books, 1980, c1979.
Physical descrip:	xxi, 777 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:	Reprint of the ed. published by Basic Books, New York.
General Note:	Includes index.
Held by:	CENTRAL
Personal subject:	Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Personal subject:	Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
Personal subject:	Godel, Kurt.
Subject term:	Metamathematics.
Subject term:	Symmetry.
Subject term:	Artificial intelligence.
ISBN:	0394745027 (pbk.)

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