Book:Douglas R. Hofstadter/Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Subject Matter

 * Strange Loops
 * Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

Contents

 * 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 Gödel


 * Part II: EGB
 * Chapter X: Levels of Description, and Computer Systems
 * Prelude ...
 * Chapter XI: Brains and Thoughts
 * ... Ant Fugue
 * 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