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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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