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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas Hofstadter

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  1. Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  2. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
  3. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  4. I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  5. Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
  6. Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  7. Godel's Proof by Ernest Nagel
  8. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
  9. Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries) by Rebecca Goldstein
  10. M. C. Escher: The Graphic Work by M. C. Escher
  1. The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis
  2. Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett
  3. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel And Einstein by Palle Yourgrau
  4. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell
  5. On formally undecidable propositions of Principia mathematica and related systems by Kurt Gödel
  6. Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse by Torkel Franzen
  7. Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
  8. The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher by Bruno Ernst
  9. Descartes' dream : the world according to mathematics by Philip J. Davis
  10. Introduction to Logic by Irving M. Copi

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Zaklog recommends Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon strikes me as the kind of book that Hofstadter would write if he wrote fiction. Both books are complex, with discursive passages on mathematics (see more) and a positively weird sense of humor. If you enjoyed (rather than endured) the explanatory sections on cryptography and the charts of Waterhouse's love life (among other, rarely charted things) you should really like this book."

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