Metamagical Themas

Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

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Metamagical Themas

Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

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Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
852

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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
March 1996, Basic Books
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Cover of: Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
May 1, 1986, Bantam
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New York

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 802-819.
Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
001.53/5
Library of Congress
Q335 .H63 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 852 p. :
Number of pages
852

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3186425M
Internet Archive
metamagicalthema0000hofs
ISBN 10
0465045405
ISBN 13
9780465045402
LCCN
83046095
OCLC/WorldCat
11475807
Google
psPaAAAAMAAJ
Library Thing
24290
Goodreads
1120014

Work Description

Toen 'Godel, Escher, Bach' verscheen in 1979 was Hofstadter in een klap wereldberoemd. Het is maar weinigen gegeven zo met taal en kennis te spelen: briljant, erudiet, creatief, humoristisch, en didaktisch van zeer hoog niveau. Dezelfde kwaliteiten bepalen het gezicht van 'Metamagische thema's'. Het is een bundeling van artikelen die in de jaren 1981-1983 in de Scientific American verschenen en die nu met behulp van uitvoerige naschriften tot een geheel verweven zijn. De onderwerpen bestrijken ruwweg hetzelfde brede gebied dat we kennen uit 'Godel, Escher, Bach': kunstmatige intelligentie, creativiteit, muziek, zelfverwijzing, en ook Achilles en de schildpad zijn van de partij. Een intellectuele delicatesse. Bevat register en een uitvoerige bibliografie met toelichting.
(NBD|Biblion recensie, Drs. D.G. van der Steen.)

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