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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author Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ
awardReceived National Book Award for Nonfiction ⓘ
surface form: National Book Award for Science (paperback)

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction ⓘ
awardYear 1980 ⓘ
centralConcept emergent phenomena ⓘ
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countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
genre cognitive science ⓘ
computer science popularization ⓘ
mathematics popularization ⓘ
philosophy of mathematics ⓘ
philosophy of mind ⓘ
influenced artificial intelligence research ⓘ
cognitive science ⓘ
philosophy of mind discourse ⓘ
ISBN 0465026567 ⓘ
language English ⓘ
narrativeDevice Achilles and the tortoise ⓘ
surface form: Achilles and the Tortoise
pages over 700 ⓘ
publicationYear 1979 ⓘ
publisher Basic Books ⓘ
structure dialogues between fictional characters ⓘ
interleaved essays ⓘ
subject Gödel's incompleteness theorems ⓘ
Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ
Kurt Gödel ⓘ
M. C. Escher ⓘ
Turing machine ⓘ
surface form: Turing machines

artificial intelligence ⓘ
computation ⓘ
consciousness ⓘ
formal systems ⓘ
mathematical logic ⓘ
music theory ⓘ
recursion ⓘ
self-reference ⓘ
strange loops ⓘ
subtitle An Eternal Golden Braid ⓘ
title Gödel, Escher, Bach self-link ⓘ

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