Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter. Copyright © 1979. Basic Books. .
This book reads like an intellectual Grand Tour of hacker preoccupations. Music, mathematical logic, programming, speculations on the nature of intelligence, biology, and Zen are woven into a brilliant tapestry themed on the concept of encoded self-reference. The perfect left-brain companion to Illuminatus.
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