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Dec 24, 2015 godel, escher, bach is an awesome investigation of captivating thoughts at the heart of subjective science. Mar 30, 2000 twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, douglas r hofstadters godel, escher, bach. Godel, escher, bach uneterna ghirlanda brillante una fuga metaforica su menti e macchine nello spirito di lewis carroll biblioteca scientifica 6 edizione a cura di giuseppe trautteur traduzioni di barbara veit, giuseppe longo, giuseppe trautteur, settimo termini, bruno garofolo supervisione redazionale di fiamma bianchi bandinelli sguardo dallalto elenco delle illustrzioni. Godel escher bach, an eternal golden braid by douglashofstadter isbn 0465026567 besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of bach, the artwork of escher, and the mathematics of godel. I tried to construct the central object, and came up with this book.
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