Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author(s): Douglas R. Hofstadter
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mysteries of human thought processes.
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Douglas Hofstadter is professor of computer science and cognitive science at Indiana University. GODEL, ESCHER, BACH won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 1.202
- : 29 February 2000
- : 234mm X 152mm X 42mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations
- : Cognition & cognitive psychology; Philosophy & theory of psychology
- : 824
- : very good
- : 153.4
- : English
- : 20th Anniversary ed
- : Paperback
- : Douglas R. Hofstadter