This an enhanced version of this book. I have edited/changed almost every image which was almost impossible to see.
Author(s): Douglas R.Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books
Year: 1999
Language: English
Commentary: Enhanced Image
Pages: 821
Tags: GEB
Preface to GB's Twentieth-anniversary Edition
Overview
List of Iustrations
Words of Thanks
Part I: GEB
P-1
Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering 3
Three-Part Invention 29
Chapter I: The MU-puzzle 33
Two-Part Invention 43
Chapter II: Meaning and Form in Mathematics 46
Sonata for Unaccompanid Achilles 6 1
Chapter III: Figure and Ground 64
Contracrostipunctus 75
Chapter IV: Consistency, Completeness, and Geometr 82
Little Harmoni Labrinth 103
Chapter V: Recursive Structures and Processes 1 27
Canon b Interallic Augmentation 1 53
Chapter VI: The Location of Meaning 158
Chromatc Fantas, And Feud 1 77
Chapter VII: The Propositional Calculus 1 8 1
Crab Canon 199
Chapter VIII: Typographical Number Theor 204
A Mu Offering 23 1
Chapter IX: Mumon and Godel 246
Vl ContentsPart II: EGB
Pre lude . . . 27 5
Chapter X: Levels of Description, and Computer Systems 285
. . . Ant Fugue 3 1 1
Chapter XI: Brains and Thoughts 337
English French German Suite 366
Chapter XII: Minds and Thoughts 369
Aria with Diverse Variations 39 1
Chapter XIII: BlooP and FlooP and GlooP 406
Air on G's String 43 1
Chapter XIV: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT
and Related Systems 438
Birthday Cantatatata . . . 46 1
Chapter XV: Jumping out of the System 465
Ediying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker 480
Chapter XVI: Self-Ref and Self-Rep 495
The Magicrab, Indeed 549
Chapter XVII: Church, Turing, Tarski, and Otherc 559
SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Desiging 586
Chapter XVIII: Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects 594
Contrafactus 633
Chapter XIX: Artifcial Intelligence: Prospects 64 1
Sloth Canon 681
Chapter X: Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies 684
Si-Part Ric ercar 720
Notes 743
Bibliography 746
Credits 757
Index 759
