Godel, Escher, Bach

by Douglas R. Hofstadter · 1979

A classic exploration of minds, meaning, recursion, mathematics, music, and self-reference.

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Douglas R. Hofstadter · Pulitzer-winning cognitive scientist

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Douglas R. HofstadterPulitzer-winning cognitive scientist

Cognitive scientist and author whose work connects minds, mathematics, music, and self-reference.

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Tying together Godel's incompleteness theory with mathematics, with Escher's drawings, and Bach's fugues. And showing they're all related in some way.

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