Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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A landmark work in cognitive science and philosophy, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid weaves together the lives and works of mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach to illuminate one of the deepest mysteries of human thought: how consciousness and self-reference emerge from formal systems. Douglas Hofstadter argues that the strange loops and tangled hierarchies found in Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Escher's impossible drawings, and Bach's recursive musical structures are all reflections of the same underlying phenomenon — the paradoxical nature of self-awareness itself. Written with wit, intellectual playfulness, and profound depth, the book presents complex ideas in mathematics, logic, and artificial intelligence through imaginative dialogues, puzzles, and analogies inspired by Lewis Carroll. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1980, it remains one of the most celebrated and original works of popular intellectual writing ever published.
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Format: Paperback
Published: 1982, Penguin Books
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket visible. Page Condition: Good, pages appear white and clean. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A landmark work in cognitive science and philosophy, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid weaves together the lives and works of mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach to illuminate one of the deepest mysteries of human thought: how consciousness and self-reference emerge from formal systems. Douglas Hofstadter argues that the strange loops and tangled hierarchies found in Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Escher's impossible drawings, and Bach's recursive musical structures are all reflections of the same underlying phenomenon — the paradoxical nature of self-awareness itself. Written with wit, intellectual playfulness, and profound depth, the book presents complex ideas in mathematics, logic, and artificial intelligence through imaginative dialogues, puzzles, and analogies inspired by Lewis Carroll. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1980, it remains one of the most celebrated and original works of popular intellectual writing ever published.