Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

<p>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. Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius, explores the workings of brilliant people's brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy, this book shows you, more clearly than most any other, what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math, computers, literature, music, and artificial intelligence, Gödel, Escher, Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing.</p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Philosophy

Vintage

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf

<p>Originally published by Penguin in 1980, when it was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, an anniversary edition of an illustrated examination of the nature of human thought processes.</p>

Harvester Press

Gödel, Escher, Bach: ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band.

Deutschen Taschenbuch

Gödel, Escher, Bach. Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band

Klett-Cotta

Gödel, Escher, Bach - Bir Ebedi Gökce Belik

Pinhan Yayincilik

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Alfa Yayınları

Gödel Escher Bach (Ciltli)

Gödel, Escher, Bach: um Entrelaçamento de Gênios Brilhantes

Imprensa Oficial / Unb

Gödel, Escher, Bach: een eeuwig gouden band

Olympus

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