Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Gödel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize–winning interdisciplinary book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores deep connections between mathematics, art, music, and human consciousness.
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book
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interdisciplinary work → non-fiction book → popular science book → |
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GEB
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| author |
Douglas Hofstadter
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| awardReceived |
National Book Award for Science (paperback)
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction → |
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1980
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| centralConcept |
emergent phenomena
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isomorphism → levels of description → meaning in formal systems → self-referential structures → |
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United States
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| genre |
cognitive science
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computer science popularization → mathematics popularization → philosophy of mathematics → philosophy of mind → |
| influenced |
artificial intelligence research
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cognitive science → philosophy of mind discourse → |
| ISBN |
0465026567
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| language |
English
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| narrativeDevice |
Achilles and the Tortoise
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| pages |
over 700
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| publicationYear |
1979
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| publisher |
Basic Books
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| structure |
dialogues between fictional characters
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interleaved essays → |
| subject |
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
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Johann Sebastian Bach → Kurt Gödel → M. C. Escher → Turing machines → artificial intelligence → computation → consciousness → formal systems → mathematical logic → music theory → recursion → self-reference → strange loops → |
| subtitle |
An Eternal Golden Braid
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| title |
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Douglas Hofstadter
("Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid")
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Douglas Hofstadter
("Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid")
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MIT Press
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Douglas Hofstadter
("Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid")
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Douglas Hofstadter
("Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979)")
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
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