Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. By exploring common themes in the lives and works...

Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach. Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on 17 June 1898 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the...

concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach. In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages...

to the earth. With this net Indra conquered all his enemies. In Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979), Douglas Hofstadter uses Indra's net as a metaphor for the...

intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won both the Pulitzer Prize for general...

self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced...

reference to Zeno's paradox of Achilles. Notably, Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, inspired by Carroll, features the same characters in dialogues throughout...

Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier...

lines which make the grid expand greatly as it rotates. In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter explains the seeming paradox embodied in Print...

dedicated to Gödel's numbering. See Gödel 1931, p. 179; Gödel's notation (see p. 176) has been adapted to modern notation. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal...

incompleteness theorem Gödel, Escher, Bach Gödel machine Gödel's completeness theorem Gödel's speed-up theorem Löb's Theorem Minds, Machines and Gödel Non-standard...

was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop...

one of the most obvious examples of Escher's common use of paradox. It is referenced in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter, who calls it...

sequences were described by Douglas Richard Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach. In order of their presentation in chapter III on figures and background...

MU puzzle is a puzzle stated by Douglas Hofstadter and found in Gödel, Escher, Bach involving a simple formal system called "MIU". Hofstadter's motivation...

with the head biting the tail in the manner of the ouroboros. In Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter interprets the dragon's tail-bite as an image...

Hofstadter wrote the 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach to celebrate the work and ideas of Gödel, M. C. Escher and Johann Sebastian Bach. It partly explores the ramifications...

reflection on human thought, Gödel, Escher, Bach, by way of (among other things) the mathematics of art: "The difference between an Escher drawing and non-Euclidean...

series of actions followed by a very vulgar punch line. In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter names one of the rules in his version of propositional...

of motion. This passage also appears in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979). In Dorothy L. Sayers's Clouds of Witness (1926), during the...

edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis; but also books such as Gödel, Escher, Bach put the composer's art in a wider perspective. Bach's music was extensively...

book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter explained how Shepard scales could be used on the Canon a 2, per tonos in Bach's Musical...

Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1980). "Translations of Jabberwocky". Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York, NY: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-74502-7...

statement. A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter: Epimenides was a Cretan who made the immortal...

problem of consciousness, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought. In the realm of...

" Douglas Hofstadter's books, especially Metamagical Themas and Gödel, Escher, Bach, play with many self-referential concepts and were highly influential...

that ambiguity, with a progression from abstract to concrete in Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979): (1) a publication (2) a newspaper (3) The San Francisco Chronicle...

science best known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is a neologism composed of the Latin prefix ambi- ("both") and...

are flying in the opposite direction. Hofstadter, Douglas (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach. Basic Books. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-465-02656-2. "Day and Night". In...

meaning of "an X about X". Douglas Hofstadter, in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach (and in the 1985 sequel, Metamagical Themas), popularized this meaning...