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Le Ton Beau de Marot : In Praise of the Music of Language
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Le Ton Beau de Marot : In Praise of the Music of Language Paperback - 1998

by Hofstadter, Douglas

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Artificial intelligence pioneer Douglas R. Hofstadter celebrates the infinite subtleties of human creativity through language and translation in this brilliant successor to his GODEL, ESCHER, BACH. French poet Clement Marot's tiny poem "A une Damoyselle malade", written some 400 years ago, is the unlikely launching point for Hofstadter's latest exploration of the power of human thought.

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  • Title Le Ton Beau de Marot : In Praise of the Music of Language
  • Author Hofstadter, Douglas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 832
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date May 1998
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11138596-6
  • ISBN 9780465086450 / 0465086454
  • Weight 3.11 lbs (1.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.6 in (23.37 x 18.80 x 4.06 cm)
  • Reading level 1420
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97003999
  • Dewey Decimal Code 418.02

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Precisely one-half a millenium ago - and I mean what I say when I say it's precise - on the twenty-third day of the next-to-last month of the year fourteen hundred fourscore-and-sixteen (a tip of my hat to the Gauls' counting scheme), in the humble French town of Cahors en Quercy, some sixty-odd miles to the north of Toulouse, was born a bright boy christened Clement Marot, the son of an auto-taught poet named Jean and a lady whose life's but a question mark: our focus thus shifts from his folks to their lad.

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About the author

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning Gdel, Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas, The Mind's I, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin.