Gödel, Escher, Bach An eternal golden braid
Book - 1999
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- Published
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New York :
Basic Books
c1999.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- 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