Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid /

Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [1979]
Subjects:
Bach, Johann Sebastian, > 1685-1750.
Escher, M. C. > (Maurits Cornelis), > 1898-1972.
Gödel, Kurt.
Metamathematics.
Symmetry.
Artificial intelligence.
Table of Contents:
  • GEB:A musico-logical offering
  • The mu-puzzle
  • Meaning and form in mathematics
  • Figure and ground
  • Consistency, completeness, and geometry
  • Recursive structures and processes
  • The location of meaning
  • The propositional calculus
  • Typographical number theory
  • Mumon and Gödel
  • EGB: Levels of description and computer systems
  • Brains and thoughts
  • Minds and thoughts
  • Bloop and floop and gloop
  • On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems
  • Jumping out of the system
  • Self-ref and self-rep
  • Church, Turing, Tarski, and others
  • Artificial intelligence: retrospects
  • Artificial intelligence: prospects
  • Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies.

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