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

By: Hofstadter, Douglas R, 1945-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c1999Description: 777 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0465026567 (pbk)Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 | Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972 | Gödel, Kurt | Metamathematics | Symmetry | Artificial intelligenceDDC classification: 510
Contents:
1. The Mu-puzzle 2. Meaning and Form in Mathematics 3. Figure and Ground 4. Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry 5. Recursive Structures and Processes 6. The Location of Meaning 7. The Propositional Calculus 8. Typographical Number Theory 9. Mumon and Godel 10. Levels of Description and Computer Systems 11. Brain and Thoughts 12. Minds and Thoughts 13. Bloop and Floop and Gloop 14. On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems 15. jumping out of the System 16. Self-Ref and Self-rep 17. Church, Turing, Tarski and Others 18. Artificial Intelligence, Retrospects 19. Artificial Intelligence, Prospects 20. Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies
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Mathematics 		510 HOF-G 1999 5907 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) Available 0005907
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 746-756) and index.

1. The Mu-puzzle
2. Meaning and Form in Mathematics
3. Figure and Ground
4. Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry
5. Recursive Structures and Processes
6. The Location of Meaning
7. The Propositional Calculus
8. Typographical Number Theory
9. Mumon and Godel
10. Levels of Description and Computer Systems
11. Brain and Thoughts
12. Minds and Thoughts
13. Bloop and Floop and Gloop
14. On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems
15. jumping out of the System
16. Self-Ref and Self-rep
17. Church, Turing, Tarski and Others
18. Artificial Intelligence, Retrospects
19. Artificial Intelligence, Prospects
20. Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies

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