Gödel, Escher, Bach

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by the author as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll". On its surface, GEB examines logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, discussing common themes in their work and lives. At a deeper level, the book is a detailed and subtle exposition of concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. Through illustration and analysis, the book discusses how self-reference and formal rules allow systems to acquire meaning despite being made of "meaningless" elements. It also discusses what it means to communicate, how knowledge can be represented and stored, the methods and limitations of symbolic representation, and even the fundamental notion of "meaning" itself. In response to confusion over the book's theme, Hofstadter has emphasized that GEB is not about mathematics, art, and music but rather about how cognition and thinking emerge from well-hidden neurological mechanisms.

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Titel:

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Untertitel:

Pulitzer Prize, Douglas Hofstadter, Fugue, Lewis Carroll, Logic, Kurt Gdel, Artist, M. C. Escher, Composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, I Am a Strange Loop, Computer science, Fractal, Tumbolia

Editor:

Frederic P. Miller

Agnes F. Vandome

John McBrewster

EAN:

9786130751333

ISBN:

6130751338

Herausgeber:

OmniScriptum

Genre:

Linguistics & Literature