Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
20090912 at 09:27
A video surfaced recently which reminded someone else of a book which reminded me of an old design project.
Warning: such a ridiculous and impractical “business card” is not recommended at all.
Not to worry, it’s and old phone number even if you should decipher it.
It’s probably one of the most outrageous Microsoft Word documents ever conceived.
PDF enclosed should you need to print it out and examine it in the bathroom.
My reviiew of the actual book is as follows:
Very difficult going in places, this book makes the snake eat its tail in the most rigorous manner possible.
Starting with 5 unassailable axioms — and delightful side-trips to Bach, Escher and Lewis Carroll — Hofstadter illustrates the core reason why powerful systems all have the “incompleteness” problem.
book, note, review | tagged classical music, design, mathematics, symmetry