Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Basic Books, 1979; Penguin Books, 1980
Everything is so deeply tight together that one couldn't remove a line.
An incredible density of meaning.
Quotes:
- Gödel:
theorem, consequences, limitations
- Meaning,
recursively enumerable vs recursive
- (Implicit)
Definition, Peano arithmetic
- Recursion
and DNA, Peano postulates, chess pruning
- Thought,
classes, diagonal method
- Mathematics
- Genetics,
locality, AI, Kuhn
- Soul,
death
and western
science
- Bibliography
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies,
Le Ton beau de Marot
Reviews,
Maths,
Software
Marc Girod
Last modified: Mon Oct 11 09:53:12 EEST 2004