Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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Everything is a symbol and symbols can combine to form patterns. Patterns are beautiful and revelatory of larger truths. These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gdel M.C. Escher and Johann Sebastian Bach perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism Hofstadter ties together the work of mathematician Gdel graphic artist Escher and composer Bach. Gdel Escher Bach a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius explores the workings of brilliant peoples brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy this book shows you more clearly than most any other what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math computers literature music and artificial intelligence Gdel Escher Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing.