Gödel, Escher, Bach
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title:
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, the book expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. Through short stories, illustrations, and analysis, the book discusses how systems can acquire meaningful context despite being made of "meaningless" elements. It also discusses self-
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1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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2002-01-05T00:15:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:49:28Z
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