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Title: GODEL, ESCHER, BACH An Eternal Golden Braid

Publisher: Vintage

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Edition: First Paperback Edition; First Printing.

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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 G�del, 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 G�del, graphic artist Escher, and composer Bach. G�del, 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, G�del, 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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