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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Summary:

"A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the manner of Lewis Carroll"--Cover subtitle.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0394745027 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780394745022 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xxi, 777 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1980, c1979.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Reprint of the ed. published by Basic Books, New York.
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 746-756.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Metamathematics.
Symmetry.
Artificial intelligence.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
Gödel, Kurt.
Matematica
Logica
Teoria Do Conhecimento
Inteligencia Artificial (Computacao)
Simetría
Inteligencia artificial
Metamathematica.
Logica.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
Gödel, Kurt.
Mathématiques.
Symétrie.
Intelligence artificielle.

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504 . ‡aBibliography: p. 746-756.
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