Was Gödel, Escher, Bach insightful?

Three of the ways he explores it are in the logic and formal systems of Godel, the artwork of Escher and the music of Bach. He also explores it in the structure of .... It thoroughly investigates, analyses, and demonstrates self-reference in many ingenious, insightful, and self-referential ways. read more

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. The tagline "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll" was used by the publisher to describe the book. read more

Tal Cohen has taken a close look at Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach -- 20th Anniversary Edition. He's returned to the book to try and explain what the book is really about-using a new foreword. read more

Gödel, Escher, Bach is really something unique and special. The book attempts to put forward the outline of a theory of intelligence, by drawing from an incredibly wide array of disciplines - not just the three (mathematics, art and music), which are implied by the title – but also logical systems, computer science, genetics (there are really too many to list) as well as a considerable amount of literary flair. read more

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 of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, the book expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. read more

Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. read more

In the Musical Offering, Bach includes an inscriptions whose first letters combine to spell “RICERCAR”, and Italian word meaning “to seek” The Offering has a three part fugue, a six part fugue, ten canons, and a trio sonata. Canons: In a canon, a single theme is played against itself. Like Row Row Row Your Boat. read more