Books in the bibliography of Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
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136 reviews
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The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher
by Bruno Ernst
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4 reviews
4.1
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
by Paul Reps
2,178 members
17 reviews
4.1
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A History of Pi
by Petr Beckmann
1,382 members
17 reviews
½ 3.5
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Men of Mathematics
by E. T. Bell
1,068 members
17 reviews
3.9
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Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
by Jacques Monod
806 members
8 reviews
3.9
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
by George Steiner
794 members
10 reviews
3.9
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The World of M.C. Escher
by M. C. Escher
753 members
3 reviews
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
by Martin Gardner
694 members
10 reviews
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The Decipherment of Linear B
by John Chadwick
680 members
14 reviews
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The Sciences of the Artificial
by Herbert A. Simon
637 members
6 reviews
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Structured Computer Organization
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
547 members
2 reviews
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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation
by Joseph Weizenbaum
472 members
4 reviews
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
by Milton Rokeach
446 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
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Computability and Logic
by George S. Boolos
409 members
1 review
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Artificial Intelligence
by Patrick Henry Winston
378 members
4 reviews
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Molecular biology of the gene
by James D. Watson
377 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience
by Erving Goffman
367 members
1 review
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An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
by G. H. Hardy
335 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
by Nelson Goodman
303 members
4.1
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Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings
by Paul Benacerraf
292 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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Emotion and Meaning in Music
by Leonard B. Meyer
264 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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Magritte
by Suzi Gablik
241 members
1 review
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Adventures of a Mathematician
by Stanislaw Ulam
233 members
2 reviews
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From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931
by Jean van Heijenoort
218 members
3 reviews
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Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Decipherment
by Cyrus H. Gordon
204 members
1 review
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The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Revised Edition
by W. V. Quine
201 members
1 review
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Voices in Stone
by Ernst Doblhofer
185 members
4.1
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The Bach reader
by Hans T. David
168 members
1 review
3.9
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The Insect Societies
by Edward O. Wilson
163 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man
by Margaret Boden
148 members
2.9
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Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis
by Paul J. Cohen
144 members
½ 4.5
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Introduction to Logic
by Patrick Suppes
138 members
½ 3.7
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The Little LISPer
by Daniel P. Friedman
128 members
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What Is Life? & Mind and Matter
by E. Schrodinger
117 members
1 review
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Palindromes and Anagrams
by Howard W. Bergerson
109 members
5
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Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938
by Alfred Tarski
108 members
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Minds and Machines
by Alan Ross Anderson
107 members
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The Language of Music
by Deryck Cooke
101 members
1 review
4.9
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The Conscious Brain
by Steven P. R. Rose
99 members
1 review
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Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability
by Hartley Rogers
85 members
1 review
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Computers and Thought
by Edward A. Feigenbaum
82 members
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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
by Charles Babbage
78 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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Philosophy of mathematics
by Stephen F. Barker
66 members
½ 3.5
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Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition
by Sara Turing
64 members
2 reviews
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Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps
by Kees Boeke
63 members
½ 4.3
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Semantic Information Processing
by Marvin Minsky
61 members
1 review
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Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI)
by Carl Sagan
58 members
1 review
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Language As a Cognitive Process: Syntax
by Terry Winograd
55 members
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Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics
by Raymond L. Wilder
54 members
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Zeno's Paradoxes
by Wesley C. Salmon
48 members
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modern physics and antiphysics
by Adolph Baker
48 members
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Hierarchy Theory: The Challenge of Complex Systems
by Howard Hunt Pattee
48 members
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Total Art: Environments, Happenings and Performance
by Adrian Henri
47 members
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Chess Skill in Man and Machine
by Peter W. Frey
40 members
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Thought and Choice in Chess
by Adriaan D. De Groot
39 members
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Mechanical man; the physical basis of intelligent life
by Dean E. Wooldridge
36 members
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Theory of Formal Systems
by Raymond Smullyan
32 members
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Language and Perception
by George A. Miller
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Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines
by Charles Babbage
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Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas
by Jasia Reichardt
30 members
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Understanding Natural Language
by Terry Winograd
28 members
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Mentality and Machines
by Keith Gunderson
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Algorithms and automatic computing machines
by B. A. Trakhtenbrot
26 members
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Molecular Genetics: An Introductory Narrative
by Gunther S. Stent
26 members
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Dialogues on mathematics
by Alfred Renyi
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Foundations of Set Theory
by A.A. Fraenkel
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Music by Computers
by Heinz Von Foerster
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The Modeling of Mind: Computers and Intelligence
by Kenneth Sayre
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Mind and brain; a philosophy of science
by Arturo Rosenblueth
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Pattern recognition
by M. M Bongard
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Recursive functions
by Rózsa Péter
11 members
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The American Heritage Word Frequency Book
by John B. Carroll
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Development of Mathematical Logic
by R. L. Goodstein
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Konštrukcia mysle
by Marvin Minsky
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A Profile of Mathematical Logic
by Howard DeLong
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Purposive Explanation in Psychology
by Margaret Boden
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The Neurosciences: a study program
by Gardner C. Quarton
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Dictionary of biochemistry
by J. Stenesh
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Logic of the Living Brain
by Gerd Sommerhoff
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