Gödel, Escher Bach: an eternal golden braid.
by Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
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New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1980, 1980. Fair. ISBN:0394745027 ; LCCN:80-11354 ; xxi, 777 pp. ; stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: A musico-logical offering -- The MU puzzle -- Meaning and form in mathematics -- Figure and ground -- Consistency, completeness and geometry -- Recursive structures and processes -- The location of meaning -- THe propositional calculus -- Typographical number theory -- Mumon and Godel -- Levels of description and computer systems -- Brains and thoughts -- Minds and thoughts -- BlooP and FLooP and GlooP -- On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems -- Jumping out of the system -- Self-Ref and Self-Rep -- Church Turing Tarski and Others -- Artificial intelligence retrospects -- Artificial intelligence : Prospects -- Strange loops or Tangled hierachies. ; well worn copy with a slight waterstain ; reading copy only, FAIR
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
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- Title
- Gödel, Escher Bach: an eternal golden braid.
- Author
- Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1980
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- metamathematics symmetry artificial intelligence johan sebastian bach kurt godel maurits cornelis escher A musico-logical offering -- The MU puzzle -- Meaning and form in mathematics -- Figure and ground -- Consistency, completeness and geometry -- Recurs
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