Book · 1979 · Nonfiction

Godel, Escher, Bach

Name: Godel, Escher, Bach
Author: Douglas Hofstadter

An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

Basic Books (Hachette) · 824 pages

★ 6.9 editorial score

How does a self arise from parts that have none? Hofstadter answers by braiding Godel's proof that no system can prove all its truths with Escher's staircases and Bach's canons into strange loops.

Genre

Science

Subject

Mathematics Intelligence Consciousness

Time

1979

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