| Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Hofstadter, Douglas R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465026567 ISBN-13: 9780465026562 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1999 Annotation: This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Mathematics | Logic - Computers | Machine Theory |
| Dewey: 510.1 |
| LCCN: 99192374 |
| Lexile Measure: 1150 |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.5" W x 9.2" (2.40 lbs) 824 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of maps or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more. |