Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
5/5
Basic Books 777 pages April 1, 1979
A Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of the themes connecting the work of mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer J.S. Bach. Hofstadter weaves together logic, mathematics, art, music, and artificial intelligence into a dazzling tapestry about the nature of minds and meaning.
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Jim's Review
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Holy pages, bookworms — this one is a TRIP. Hofstadter takes you on a wild ride through math, music, art, and consciousness, and somehow makes it all feel like one big interconnected puzzle. Jim's brain was doing backflips by chapter three. It's long, it's dense, but every page is a revelation. If you've ever wondered what self-reference, recursion, and strange loops have to do with your own mind, this is your book. Five worms for the sheer audacity of it.
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