Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

Douglas R. Hofstadter

852 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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These essays (mostly from Scientific American, but several previously unpublished) look at chaos and Chopin, grammar and genetics, racism and Rubik's cube, and countless other subjects. From all this, Hofstadter throws new light on his central the...

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