GODEL, ESCHER, BACH - AN ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
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Hofstadter's great achievement in Gödel, Escher, Bach was making abstruse mathematical topics (like undecidability, recursion, and 'strange loops') accessible and remarkably entertaining. Borrowing a page from Lewis Carroll (who might well have been a fan of this book), each chapter presents dialogue between the Tortoise and Achilles, as well as other characters who dramatize concepts discussed later in more detail. Allusions to Bach's music (centering on his Musical Offering) and Escher's continually paradoxical artwork are plentiful here. This more approachable material lets the author delve into serious number theory (concentrating on the ramifications of Gödel's Theorem of Incompleteness) while stopping along the way to ponder the work of a host of other mathematicians, artists, and thinkers. The world has moved on since 1979, of course. The book predicted that computers probably won't ever beat humans in chess, though Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. And the vinyl record, which serves for some of Hofstadter's best analogies, is now left to collectors. Sections on recursion and the graphs of certain functions from physics look tantalizing, like the fractals of recent chaos theory.
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ISBN | 9780465026562 |
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Pré venda | Não |
Peso | 868g |
Autor para link | HOFSTADTER DOUGLAS R. |
Livro disponível - pronta entrega | Não |
Tipo item | Livro Importado |
Número de páginas | 777 |
Número da edição | ESPECIAL EDITION - 1999 |
Código Interno | 27573 |
Código de barras | 9780465026562 |
Acabamento | PAPERBACK |
Autor | HOFSTADTER, DOUGLAS R. |
Editora | BASIC BOOKS |
Sob encomenda | Sim |