Hofstadter Godel Escher Bach. By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician kurt gödel, artist m. Escher and composer johann sebastian bach, geb expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence.
#douglas r hofstadter #douglas hofstadter #godel escher bach #haiku. I present my discarded review below just in case it motivates. The purpose of this structure is to allow me to. By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician kurt gödel.
I have found two different pdf versions and both have many typos which make understanding certain chapters impossible.
There has been nothing like it in computer science before or since.—ernest davis, ieee expert. In 1979, a groundbreaking book called godel, escher, bach: Recently i began to write a review of hofstadter's godel, escher, bach, until i realized that the book defied summary more than all the other books i had previously said defied summary. thus, i gave up on reviewing the book after not too long. #douglas r hofstadter #douglas hofstadter #godel escher bach #haiku.
