| Edition |
First Vintage Books edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Reprint of the ed. published by Basic Books, New York. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 746-756. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the manner of Lewis Carroll"--Cover subtitle. |
| Contents |
Words of Thanks -- GEB -- Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering -- Three-Part Invention -- The MU-puzzle -- Two-Part Invention -- Meaning and Form in Mathematics -- Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles -- Figure and Ground -- Contracrostipunctus -- Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry -- Little Harmonic Labyrinth -- Recursive Structures and Processes -- Canon by Intervallic Augmentation -- The Location of Meaning -- Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud -- The Propositional Calculus -- Crab Canon -- Typographical Number Theory -- A Mu Offering -- Mumon and Godel -- EGB -- Prelude ... -- Levels of Description, and Computer Systems -- ... Ant Fugue -- Brains and Thoughts -- English French German Suite -- Minds and Thoughts -- Aria with Diverse Variations -- BlooP and FlooP and GlooP -- Air on G's String -- On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems -- Birthday Cantatatata ... -- Jumping out of the System -- Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker -- Self-Ref and Self-Rep -- The Magnificrab, Indeed -- Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others -- Shrdlu, Toy of Man's Designing -- Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects -- Contrafactus -- Artificial Intelligence: Prospects -- Sloth Canon -- Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies -- Six-Part Ricercar. |
| Subject |
Metamathematics.
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Symmetry.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
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Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
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Gödel, Kurt.
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| ISBN |
0394745027 paperback |
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9780394745022 paperback |
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