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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 800 pages
Edition: 20th Anniversary Edition
Publisher: Basic Books, Inc.
ISBN: 0465026567
Release Date: Jan 8, 1982
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
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.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
Brilliant lay introduction to Goedel's Theorem
-- A reviewer, January 9, 2002
Eternal Golden Braid - Finally, Truth in Advertising!
-- Sam Vaknin, the author of 'Malignant Self Love', August 16, 2001
Brilliant, thought provoking, all-encompassing
-- Victor Gijsbers, a 17-year old physics student, July 5, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A consistently engaging and challenging meditation on puzzles and paradoxes of logic, mathematics, physics, art, and philosophy, presented in a series of essays and dialogues. "A wondrous book that unites and explains, in a very entertaining way, many of the important ideas of recent intellectual history"--Commonwealth
| |  | | | | Overview | | | List of Illustrations | | | Words of Thanks | | | Pt. I | GEB | | | Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering | 3 | | Three-Part Invention | 29 | | Ch. I | The MU-puzzle | 33 | | Two-Part Invention | 43 | | Ch. II | Meaning and Form in Mathematics | 46 | | Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles | 61 | | Ch. III | Figure and Ground | 64 | | Contracrostipunctus | 75 | | Ch. IV | Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry | 82 | | Little Harmonic Labyrinth | 103 | | Ch. V | Recursive Structures and Processes | 127 | | Canon by Intervallic Augmentation | 153 | | Ch. VI | The Location of Meaning | 158 | | Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud | 177 | | Ch. VII | The Propositional Calculus | 181 | | Crab Canon | 199 | | Ch. VIII | Typographical Number Theory | 204 | | A Mu Offering | 231 | | Ch. IX | Mumon and Godel | 246 | | Pt. II | EGB | | | Prelude ... | 275 | | Ch. X | Levels of Description, and Computer Systems | 285 | | ... Ant Fugue | 311 | | Ch. XI | Brains and Thoughts | 337 | | English French German Suite | 366 | | Ch. XII | Minds and Thoughts | 369 | | Aria with Diverse Variations | 391 | | Ch. XIII | BlooP and FlooP and GlooP | 406 | | Air on G's String | 431 | | Ch. XIV | On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems | 438 | | Birthday Cantatatata ... | 461 | | Ch. XV | Jumping out of the System | 465 | | Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker | 480 | | Ch. XVI | Self-Ref and Self-Rep | 495 | | The Magnificrab, Indeed | 549 | | Ch. XVII | Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others | 559 | | SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing | 586 | | Ch. XVIII | Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects | 594 | | Contrafactus | 633 | | Ch. XIX | Artificial Intelligence: Prospects | 641 | | Sloth Canon | 681 | | Ch. XX | Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies | 684 | | Six-Part Ricercar | 720 | | Notes | 743 | | Bibliography | 746 | | Credits | 757 | | Index | 759 |
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