Synopsis
Linking the music of J.S. Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Gödel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, Douglas Hofstadter illuminates one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: the nature of human thought processes.
His momentous and by now famous book has much in common with the works of Lewis Carroll. Lucid and witty, drawing together an astonishing range of ideas, it is at once an entertainment, a brilliant literary achievement and a triumph of the imagination.
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Everything is a symbol, and symbols can combine to form patterns. Patterns are beautiful and revelatory of larger truths. These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism, Hofstadter ties together the work of mathematician Gödel, graphic artist Escher, and composer Bach.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius, explores the workings of brilliant people's brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy, this book shows you, more clearly than most any other, what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math, computers, literature, music, and artificial intelligence, Gödel, Escher, Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
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Penguin, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0140055797
ISBN 13: 9780140055795
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Soft cover
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Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at the title page -"To Dick with best wishes from Doug Hofstadter April 24, 1995". With two pieces of ephemera laid in for the April 24, 1995 lecture given by Hofstadter at Indiana University that night that was titled "Old Sexism in New Guise", where this copy was signed. Third printing, 1981, of the 1980 first British trade paperback edition. Near Fine, vertical crease at spine and tiny corner crease, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. Winner of both the National Book Award for Science Hardcover and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Seller Inventory # 010672