Gödel, Escher, Bach An eternal golden braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1945-

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Published
New York : Basic Books c1999.
Language
English
Main Author
Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1945- (-)
Edition
20th anniversary ed
Physical Description
23, vi-xxi, 777 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 746-756) and index.
ISBN
9780465026562
  • Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary Edition
  • Overview
  • List of Illustrations
  • Words of Thanks
  • Part I. GEB
  • Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering
  • Three-Part Invention
  • Chapter I. The MU-puzzle
  • Two-Part Invention
  • Chapter II. Meaning and Form in Mathematics
  • Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles
  • Chapter III. Figure and Ground
  • Contracrostipunctus
  • Chapter IV. Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry
  • Little Harmonic Labyrinth
  • Chapter V. Recursive Structures and Processes
  • Canon by Intervallic Augmentation
  • Chapter VI. The Location of Meaning
  • Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud
  • Chapter VII. The Propositional Calculus
  • Crab Canon
  • Chapter VIII. Typographical Number Theory
  • A Mu Offering
  • Chapter IX. Mumon and Godel
  • Part II. EGB
  • Prelude ...
  • Chapter X. Levels of Description, and Computer Systems
  • ... Ant Fugue
  • Chapter XI. Brains and Thoughts
  • English French German Suite
  • Chapter XII. Minds and Thoughts
  • Aria with Diverse Variations
  • Chapter XIII. BlooP and FlooP and GlooP
  • Air on G's String
  • Chapter XIV. On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems
  • Birthday Cantatatata ...
  • Chapter XV. Jumping out of the System
  • Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker
  • Chapter XVI. Self-Ref and Self-Rep
  • The Magnificrab, Indeed
  • Chapter XVII. Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others
  • Shrdlu, Toy of Man's Designing
  • Chapter XVIII. Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects
  • Contrafactus
  • Chapter XIX. Artificial Intelligence: Prospects
  • Sloth Canon
  • Chapter XX. Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies
  • Six-Part Ricercar
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Credits
  • Index