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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.

Escher, M. C.

Gödel, Kurt.

Metamathematics.

Symmetry.

Artificial intelligence.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 777 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, [1979]

Contents:

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. 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 in G's string; Chapter XIV: On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems. Birthday contatata ...; 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:

"Copyright © 1979 by Basic Books, Inc."

"A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll."--Dust jacket.

"The main text of this book is in the Baskerville typeface, using Quadrata for the Chapter headings and subheadings. The text was set on a Mergenthaler Variable Input Phototypesetting machines at Stanford California."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-756) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979".

ISBN:

0465026850 :

OCLC:

4570277