Book:Douglas R. Hofstadter/Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Published $\text {1979}$, Penguin
- ISBN 0-465-02656-7
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
- Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering
- 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