Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN 10: 0465026850 ISBN 13: 9780465026852
Published by Basic Books May 1979, 1979
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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. Gø¶del Escher and Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Review: 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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Title: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Publisher: Basic Books May 1979
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition.
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Gödel, Escher, Bach an Eternal Golden Braid
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Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0465026850
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. First edition. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. xxi 777pp. Brown cloth in dust jacket. First edition with number line beginning in 1. Jacket spine and edges are heavily faded. Original price of $18.50 present on front jacket flap. Crease to front jacket flap. Small, mild stain to bottom edge, not effecting interior. Nice copy. Pulitzer Prize winner (1980) and National Book Award winner (1980). Important work in the fields of philosophy, logic, artifical intellgence, and consciousness. Seller Inventory # 80217
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hofstadter's great achievement in Gödel, Escher, Bach was making abstruse mathematical topics (like undecidability, recursion, and 'strange loops') accessible and remarkably entertaining. the author delve into serious number theory (concentrating on the ramifications of Gödel's Theorem of Incompleteness) while stopping along the way to ponder the work of a host of other mathematicians, artists, and thinkers. First edition of the author s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original brown cloth. In near fine codition with dust jacket with some toning to the spine and tiny closed tears. 6¼" - 9½". book. Seller Inventory # 277185
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