Hofstadter, Douglas R. <br/><br/>
Gödel, Escher, Bach :  an eternal golden braid / 
Douglas R. Hofstadter 
 - 20th-anniversary Edition 
 - New York :  Penguin Books,  c2000 
 - xlv, 777 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I : GEB -- Introduction : A Musico-logical offering -- Chapter I : The MU-puzzle -- Chapter II : Meaning and form in mathematics -- Chapter III : Figure and ground -- Chapter IV : Consistency, completeness, and geometry -- Chapter V : Recursive structures and processes -- Chapter VI : The Location of meaning -- Chapter VII : The Propositional calculus -- Chapter VIII : Typographical number theory -- Chapter IX : Mumon and Godel -- Chapter X : Levels of description, and computer systems -- Chapter XI : Brains and thoughts -- Chapter XII : Minds and thoughts -- Chapter XIII : Bloop and floop and gloop -- Chapter XIV : On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems -- Chapter XV : Jumping out of the system -- Chapter XVI : Self-ref and self-rep -- Chapter XVII : Church, Turing, Tarski and others -- Chapter XVIII : Artificial intelligence : Retrospects -- Chapter XIX : Artificial intelligence : prospects -- Chapter XX : Strange loops or tangles hierarchies 
<br/><br/> Introduction : a musico-logical offering. The book opens with the story of Bach's musical offering. Bach made an impromptu visit to King Frederick the Great of Prussia, and was requested to improvise upon a theme presented by the King. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780140289206 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>MATHEMATICS
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA 9.8 .H64 2000