Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

777 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. Linking together the music of J.S. Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel...

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