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Douglas
Hofstadter College
Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of
History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and
Psychology Ph.D. in physics, University of Oregon, 1975; Pulitzer Prize
(General Nonfiction category), 1980, American Book Award (Science Hardback
category), 1980, for Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid;
Guggenheim Fellow, 1980-81. Visit his
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 Gödel, Escher, Bach
Penguin. A classic book about mathematics (Gödel), art (Escher) and music
(Bach), written in the spirit of Lewis Carroll. A work of art in itself.
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.
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 MetaMagical Themas
Penguin. This sentence is the
first one here that tries to summarise the book's contents. This, the second
sentence, continues in the same vein. Questing for the essence of mind and
pattern, an interlocking collection of literary, scientific and artistic
studies. The title is an anagram of "Mathematical Games". What about this:
"This sentence contains exactly threee erors."
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