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

Main entry:

Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

xxi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-756) and index.
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.
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Winner, 1980

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Cornerstones of Science website

ISBN:

0465026850
9780465026852
0394745027
9780394745022

Subject:

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
Gödel, Kurt.
Geodel, Kurt.
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
Escher, Maurits C. 1898-1972
Bach, Johann Sebastian, (1685-1750)
Escher, Maurits Cornelis, (1898-1972)
Gödel, Kurt, (1906-1978)
Escher, Maurits C.
Bach, Johann Sebastian.
Metamathematics.
Symmetry.
Artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence
Métamathématique.
Symétrie.
Intelligence artificielle.
artificial intelligence.
Mathematik
Grafik
Gödelscher Unvollständigkeitssatz
Informatik
Kognitiver Prozess
Künstliche Intelligenz
Metamathematik
Musik
Weltbild
Metamathematica.
Kunstmatige intelligentie.

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Call No.: 2428; ID:87-B4345
Status: Available

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