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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Description for Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Paperback. Godel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize--winning treatise exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A groundbreaking book that has set the standard for interdisciplinary writing. A book every thinking reader must have. Num Pages: 824 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 168 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1084.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
824
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465026562
SKU
V9780465026562
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-41
About Douglas R. Hofstadter
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. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including I Am a Strange Loop and Surfaces and Essences, and has contributed to ten more. He lives in ... Read more
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